After last weekend's trip to the Children's Pool during the Day, I made a note to come back at night. It has everything interesting- rocky coast with little islands, a dramatic sea wall, seals, and a small beach. Natalie came met up with me around 10 pm  for some moonlight photography.

After almost 4 hours and many 4-10 minute exposures, the only image I'm truly happy with is this one:



That couple stayed in one place for the full ten minute exposure. I wish I knew who they were so that I could show it to them.



Most of my exposures were around 4-6 minutes at f/11 or f/16. I don't have a good feel yet for how a properly exposed night shot looks on the back of the LCD, so I thought I had enough information to work with in post. I turned out that I had to push process a lot more than I should have, resulting in noisy and very contrasty images. If I held back on the processing, they were just a bit dim.



With some more patience to add a couple more minutes to each shot, I think they would have turned out better. There's always next time, which will be sooner rather than later! There is something very exciting about standing in the darkness and imagining how it's going to reveal itself to you. Anybody know of any other interesting locations?