Tips for photographing a City
Here are a few tips for photographing a city's personality.
Cityscapes are like landscapes, mountains become buildings,
rivers become roads just add some clouds for some dramatic
images.
The biggest difference with cities is that cities are full of lights
come alive after dark.
Get high up for shooting down on a cityscape.
Shoot through the windows of a buildings, keep your camera
straight, close to the glass, turn off the flash and any lights
in the room, cover your head and camera with a dark cloth
and use a polarizing filter to reduce reflections in the glass.
Photographing just after sundown, take five bracketed photos
to combine later in post processing.
When dark take just three bracketed photos and combine them
later in post processing.
Limit your exposures to 30 seconds.
Photographing people at night use exposures of 1 - 5 seconds.
Shoot reflective surfaces, glass, car windows, rivers, ponds, rain,
puddles, quays, store fronts.
Use a graduated filter to reduce the glare of the bright city lights
with darker reflections.
Pick a theme, people, doors, patterns, reflections, shops, light
trails, street entertainers.