8th of Friday was one day exactly after I had finished the last of my assessments (A German Test) and luckily for me I was able to "celebrate" "stress-free" with my friend and a bunch of his mates (and one of his mates girlfriend and her friend also lol) at the lights festival VIVID Sydney. This was actually the first time I got to hang out with this friend. I never realised that he took an interest in photography. Funnily enough though I realised pretty much all my male friends are photography enthusiasts. All the photos here are unedited mainly because I was lazy and also because I thought there was something interesting about darkness.
This was where we began our journey! At the top of the overseas passenger terminal. I love the views from up here and it wasn't so crowdy and man it gets seriously crowdy down there I couldn't see anything! And here you have me attempting to shoot sans tripod in the dark.
Of course without any tripods at hand my friends and I grabbed at whatever we could turn into a "tripod" i.e. hand railings. Lucky for us we had a nice flat and large surface. For a while we stayed up there and I managed to capture people coming and going - all who had a camera of some form whether it be mobile, digital compacts or dslrs.
Call me no night photography pro and photographer for that matter. To be quite honest, with all the people nowadays with dslr cameras there's a little more pressure to take "good photography". But I think many people are doing that enough already and all I really want to do is just play and have fun! All of course while trying to learn and master the art and technical aspects of capturing light. Part of why I love "photography" is being able to document moments, people and capture things in a new light and perspective. So while this photo may be dark I like it because there's something mysterious to it.
Photoception! There was something wonderful about the 3 friends. I loved being able to witness the dynamics and interactions between the best mates.
My attempts at focusing at night are always a failure. Something I need to practice... It's always hard to see during night. I keep forgetting that there's auto focusing as well so I didn't quite make good use of it - although I doubt it would have helped me very much.
There were many lovers during Vivid and I managed to capture this couple. I actually really love this photo - if it weren't unfocused it would have been almost perfect. The lights turned colourful on time too.
Avatar/Smurf man. This was a completely unintentional and accidental shot and probably the sharpest photo I took during the night haha. When I saw the result I started laughing so much because my friend was so blue he looked much like an avatar creature. He just laughed and liked it also so it was all good.
Time went by so fast and the night ended so soon. It was time to head back. Unfortunately we didn't get to go any further which would have been nice as I felt like the fun only just began here! There's always never enough time in one night for vivid.
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