A few hours after arriving at the accommodation at FIAP Paris, we took the metro up to the river Seine, where we walked around various iconic landmarks along the river, namely the Louvre museum. Whilst on this walk, I decided to bring my camera with me to do a photoshoot of the landscape and buildings that we passed, as I thought it would be a good chance to develop my skills in night photography. I’ve started looking at how settings such as ISO can impact the quality of an image, especially at night, so I wanted to focus primarily on using a lower ISO to achieve a higher quality image that captures as much as possible in the frame.

I took hundreds of images on the first night, some of which I had to unfortunately delete a lot of to save storage space on my SD card. I still kept a few hundred, which I sorted through and removed the ones with poor focus, low quality, or ones where I felt the composition was extremely weak. Eventually I was left with around 40 images that I believed were good enough to edit for a final image.

These 10 images were my final images from the first night, which I feel all have strong compositions when it comes to leading lines, focal points, and colour palettes. I’m really proud with how they turned out, especially with my experimentation with ISO in low-light settings such as in most of these photographs. Considering the small ISO range that my camera has, and the limitations of this, I think I did the best job I could for this shoot, but I’d like to see how I can improve this in the future without upgrading to something more expensive.