New Haven At Night

Yesterday I took a late afternoon visit to downtown New Haven to scout some spots for an upcoming shoot. Afternoon turned into evening, so I stopped back at my car to grab my tripod to try my hand at some nighttime photos; the results of which are below. Not too bad for my first time shooting at night and I definitely look forward to learning more about it. It is SO much different than shooting daytime or indoor. It's mostly too dark for autofocus to work well, so lesson number one was to manually focus. This quickly lead me to lesson number two: bring a flashlight so I can see the distance scale on my lens enough to allow me to accurately set focus. Anyway, I had a great time wandering about Yale with my camera...it was very relaxing and showed me Yale and the surrounding area in much finer detail than if I had just been passing through.