Christmas Lights, Hayes Lane, December 2008 2008 images from the most decorated house I've found in BromleyThis page contains links to pages with clickable images.
If you want to see a larger image of any of these pictures, please click on the picture.
I found that I had a growing number of pages containing Christmas images, so I decided to give them their own index.
As Christmas light pictures generally need to be taken near or after dusk, the majority of these pictures were taken with the support of a tripod. However, I did fall foul of a breezy Winter evening once when I was trying to take long exposures and the inflatable decorations kept jiggling in the breeze, so I had to revise my camera settings and shorten my exposures, albeit I still kept the tripod.
The main problem with photographing Christmas decorations, particularly inflatables, is uneven lighting. The best advice is to expose for the highlights and then let the computer brighten up the darker bits later. If there isn't too much breeze, taking several different exposures will give better quality material for the computer to work with, but if there is a breeze, shoot on the lowest ISO you can get away with and save raw as well as JPEG images and if necessary process the raw files several times to pull up the detail from the darker bits.
I hope you enjoy seeing my Christmas pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.
Christmas Lights, Hayes Lane, December 2008 2008 images from the most decorated house I've found in Bromley
Christmas Shop Window and Lights, Biggin Hill, December 2008 2008 images from the window of Harris HospisCare in Biggin Hill, plus the town's signature 2008 Christmas decoration
Windsor & Eton, 28th November 2007 Twilight pictures, including Christmas decorations
Christmas Lights, Downderry Road, December 2006 decorated house in Downham with a collection for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
Christmas Lights, Hayes Lane, December 2006 probably the most decorated house in Bromley
West End Lights Pictures, November 25th, 2006 Christmas lights in Oxford and Regent Streets, plus the sign outside the Dominion Theatre.
Chesterfield Christmas lights, and night pictures of the church with the crooked spire
Miscellaneous Index (Pictures Page)
Last Revised: 1st January, 2009.