Last night my friend Matt took me downtown for a lesson in night photography. It was a lot of fun. I will be posting photos from our excursion for the next several days. I always thought that taking long exposures was super difficult. However, once you get the basics down the rest comes pretty easy. We shot a lot of the same stuff, including this picture of the Delta Queen that Matt got published on The Chattanoogan.

A couple gadgets that Matt had made some of my shots possible. The first was a shutter remote. It is a good thing that we both have Canon DSLRs, or I would not have been able to take bulb shots. The second item was a little hot shoe level. In the dark it is hard to frame a shot, so the level was useful in preventing “wonky horizons.” One related tip that Matt gave me was to set your ISO really high and take a shot just to check the framing. I will have to try that next time.