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Last night I went out and decided to try and improve on my earlier time images like I suggested in this post.

So I cleaned the windscreen of Colin's car, set up a tripod in the passenger seat and away we went towards Nottingham. I first set up my camera for a shutter speed of around 10 seconds, but my plan wasn't fool proof. Even with the aid of a tripod over hand held, there was still enough shakes to make the lights go all wobbly and induce sickness in the photograph as you can see here.




So I decided that I should speed up the shutter speed even more like I foresaw in my previous blog post on this subject. As I gradually shortened the exposure time, the lights became much more manageable, but I still felt like they were out of place and not producing the kind of image I was looking for.






What I did notice from these pictures however were that the road and central reservation were quite attractive and that the colour of the lights was a little too overpowering. So to develop from this reflection I decided I would try shooting in black and white or mess around with custom white balance settings and also compose the image with more focus on the central reservation and road, trying to avoid the sickly lights.












I feel that from my development of my original idea I have managed to arrive at a usable set of images for my final 8 of this module. I just need to decide which one to pick. All of them portray the subject title very well with their soft motion blur due to the 0.5-2 second exposure time and they also put across the development of my skills over the past few months.