For these photo's I wanted to shoot the image at night as it was a clear sky and I thought that this would look quite interesting and vacant like Padstow at night compared to Padstow in the day, where it is very busy (like the lights in the image.) I thought that this gave the pictures quite a city like feel, although you can tell from looking at the picture that Padstow doesn't really have a night life. Unlike places like Newquay, where a photo at night would be very busy.
I went out into Padstow at about 11 o clock at night and took photos of the harbour. I used a Canon 450D, a tripod and a shutter release cable. I was originally going to take slow exposure pictures but then as Padstow is very bright, my pictures would have come out very over exposed, so I therefore decided to take pictures at a normal shutter speed. I also noticed that the picture appears to be slanted, however this is because Padstow is on a slope.
I went out into Padstow at about 11 o clock at night and took photos of the harbour. I used a Canon 450D, a tripod and a shutter release cable. I was originally going to take slow exposure pictures but then as Padstow is very bright, my pictures would have come out very over exposed, so I therefore decided to take pictures at a normal shutter speed. I also noticed that the picture appears to be slanted, however this is because Padstow is on a slope.
For these images I was inspired by a photographer named Dan Holdsworth who does slow exposures.
In the future I would like to re shoot and possibly try a different method. For example, Colour film. 
This photo was my 3rd photo of this series of images. As I liked the first photo that I took, I thought that I would take more pictures of Padstow Harbour at night, and then I thought I would take some in the day and compare the two. This image and the previous image were taken with slow exposures, of about 15-30 seconds each. I used a Canon 450D, a tripod and a shutter release cable.
Inspiration for these images was from a website called Lost America, where photo's have been taken at night and slow exposures have been used. The images of petrol stations at night inspired me because of the colours in the pictures and because of the lights.
I decided to re shoot the harbour however this time in the day. I chose not to use a tripod or any other accessories. All I used was a Canon 400D.
I am quite happy with the 2 pictures that I came out of the shoot with however I would have preferred it if the sky wasn't so cloudy, so that I would have got a really nice blue sky. I think that this would have made the picture stand out better.
This is my other image from my 2nd Padstow shoot. I decided to take a picture in the harbour of a boat that was on it's own. I wanted to centre the boat when taking the photo so that all the focus would be on this rather than everything else around it.
This is my favourite image of the 2 Padstow shoots.
Evaluation of my first week:
Overall I feel that this shoot went OK and I think that I got a few good images. Looking back on the Padstow at night photo's and comparing them to the day time ones, I think I prefer the ones in the daytime as I like that there is more of a range of colours than in the night time photo's.
In my next shoot I plan on using the theme "studio".
