I have come to love playing with techniques such as panning and long exposures, so over the next few blog posts, I want to share with you some great photography locations in Guilin city and also fun ideas you can try in at night in Guilin.
Night Landscape Photography
I've split this post into a few parts, today I want to share my favorite all round location and the best location for nightime landscape photographers in Guilin.
Sun and Moon Pagoda
If you are in Guilin city on a tour, a holiday or business and photography is your thing, I suggest in the evening walking down the walking street towards the Waterfall Hotel, behind those trees from 8pm to 10pm you'll find lots of tour boats on the lake.
Most of the boats have lights, some vivid neon, perfect for playing with long exposures and effects. This location is free and within easy walking distance from most hotels.
Here are a couple of photographs I took that evening this week:
Most of the boats have lights, some vivid neon, perfect for playing with long exposures and effects. This location is free and within easy walking distance from most hotels.
Here are a couple of photographs I took that evening this week:
Guilin Night Photography - Sun and Moon Pagoda
In this location there is a problem to get high enough to keep the boat lights over the water, compounded by the fact that I only had my nifty fifty with me. If only those white boat roof LED's could be turned off. That said, I still kinda like the effect, to me it sums up the approach of Chinese tour companies, fast fast fast!
Guilin Night Landscape Photography
These are true images with zero photoshop. The colors of the neon lights on this one particular boat are vivid, and the pagodas are illuminated brightly until 10 to 10.30 each night. The switch off time seems to be varied, it was 10.20 this particular night.
By Andy Beales
By Andy Beales
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