Some images of Venice Italy at night, several taken from the water. It’s an amazing place to visit … and expensive. If you go, take some good walking shoes because if you don’t want to continually pay the water taxis … it’s quite a hike to get anywhere around the canals and bridges.
![Venice water taxi at night](https://i0.wp.com/larryshapiroblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/140914_Venice-1917A.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1)
The shot above came about with the wrong shutter speed from a moving boat …
![a Venice canal at night](https://i0.wp.com/larryshapiroblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/140914_Venice-1940A.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1)
If you don’t have a tripod and a cable release, it’s still possible to get great shots at night. Here, I metered the exposure and set the camera on the wall of the canal. Then, to eliminate camera shake, I set the camera to a delayed shutter release so that my hand was away from the camera by the time the shutter opened for the exposure.
![the Grand Canal at night](https://i0.wp.com/larryshapiroblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/140914_Venice-1963A1.jpg?resize=600%2C338&ssl=1)
This was a similar type of exposure as the previous image.
![Venice water taxi driver at night](https://i0.wp.com/larryshapiroblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/140915_Venice-2524A.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1)
![the city of Venice at sunset](https://i0.wp.com/larryshapiroblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/140915_Venice-2430A.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1)
![the city of Venice at sunset](https://i0.wp.com/larryshapiroblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/140915_Venice-2448A.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1)