City Lights

When looking at Naoya Hatakeyama's work of the reflections of the city lights on water i thought about capturing the city lights in movement as the movement represents the buzz and livelyness of the city.

When researching into this more i found a few photographers who focus on light movement in the city and one which inspired me greatly is Kristopher Grunert. He focuses on photographing the movement of lights within the city. He was intrigued by the concrete city scapes encased in saturated tones of street lights. Grunert uses a 1972 Hassleblad and long exposures of 10-20 seconds

I tried out some light movement images for myself when out and about in manchester when it had gone dark,

I used 10 sec f/11 for all the shots seen below...

5 sec f/11

15 sec f/11