In reply to The Lemming:
>....I've tried a little night time shooting in the past but haven't been exactly successful. Any chance of giving a few tips on how you created this shot?
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With this particular shot, I just happened to be passing, it wasn't preplanned although I was familiar with the location and had some sort of idea of where I'd need to stand to get the full bridge in the photograph.
There are two factors which make this a better photo, firstly there is a full moon - which makes the sky brighter and parts of the structure are then clearly silhouetted against the sky. Secondly the tide is out, the wet mud nicely reflects the light of the bridge without moving, water would have blurring and other unwanted (in this case) effects.
The most important thing you need is a decent steady tripod to steady and securely hold your camera, then you either need a remote control/shutter release or use the self timer in the camera, so that you are not touching the camera immediately before,during or at the end of the exposure as this will introduce shake to the image. You need some way of controlling your exposure on the camera either through preprogrammed shutter speeds (often only as low as 15 seconds) or BULB which usually allows exposures of pretty much any duration (battery permitting). Take lots of photographs and experiment a bit, get to know what your camera is capable of doing I've taken plenty of rubbish night photographs, as well as plenty of rubbish day time photographs.
The camera used to take the photograph was a Canon Ixus 860 which was running CHDK, I manually set the exposure (upto 64seconds is possible with this camera) and the use a script to fire the camera with a delay.
For information about CHDK see:
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK (I'm not an expert on CHDK so anyone wanting to know more about it should look at the information available rather than ask me).
I can't remember the exposure, is was probably somewhere between 20 and 45 seconds, the Exif information on the photograph is wrong.
In reply to PontiusPirate:
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> That second one is still one of the favourite shots I've ever seen from a non-proffessional
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> PP.
I only have the one photograph like this, and it wasn't the intended shot, sometimes I am quite surprised by what my camera captures as it moves around in the sky,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamishfenton/5291039050/in/set-721576071647253...