Taking pictures in the dark…
…as opposed to me being in the dark about taking pictures. Nothing has changed in that regard.
This was a commission to get a couple of images of a student workshop, for pr release. Seeing as the workshop was all about the properties of light, I figured I’d better get something that reflected (oops, sorry) that fact. I had a couple of possibilities of using the light-emitting demonstration equipment, the problem with all of it was that is was very low power. Not going to show up well if I’m killing the scene with a bag of flash lighting.
Solution – easy 
– turn off every single light source in the room (didn’t need to worry about window light – black-out blinds fitted to the windows). Sounds simple, as long as subject, me, and camera don’t move after the lights go out.
The techie bit: Exposure 1/15s hand-held, f6.3, ISO400. Single light-source (you figure it out)
TTFN
