{"id":6360,"date":"2015-09-28T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6360"},"modified":"2015-09-28T17:10:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T17:10:13","slug":"salford-quays-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/salford-quays-workshop","title":{"rendered":"Salford Quays Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salford Quays Workshop<\/h1>\n

Media City is right on the canal network \u00a0– \u00a0so where better to teach night photography skills, a location where you get amazing architecture as well as stunning reflections in each shot.<\/p>\n

The workshop started at sunset and went on well past the 10PM finish time… when you’re in the zone, may as well keep going!<\/p>\n

The Technical Bit<\/h2>\n

The main skills we showed people were the basics of night shooting – which on my workshops, uses the camera’s histogram extensively. This feature baffles many – it is quite simple in reality, it’s just never been properly explained to them!<\/p>\n

What you’re looking for is a histogram where the brightest bit (the right most end of the chart) is just touching the end. If you’re shooting RAW (and you should be!) then a little peaking is ok, this can be recovered.<\/p>\n

With many brands, you can do this all in LIVE VIEW using a LIVE HISTOGRAM – on canon, you just press the “info” button over and over again till it appears. On Nikon, it varies a lot from model to model – we were entertained\u00a0with this again on the night – yet again, it was in a new place in the menu. There were 2 Sony cameras – older ones – and we never did find a live histogram, so reviewed a shot after it was taken.<\/p>\n

Exposure times were generally 30 seconds, especially when the water was rippling – long exposures flatten out the reflections.<\/p>\n

The Photos<\/h1>\n

Well here are a small selection of the shots I\u00a0created<\/p>\n

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