I've always been interested in night photography, but too lazy to haul around a tripod. This year I started working with an Olympus OM-D EM-5, which provides in-body stabilization, and so for the first time I'm using a wide-angle lens with stabilization. With reasonable image quality at ISO 1600, this little camera can pull interesting hand-held images out of near-darkness.
These scenes often look unnatural, like stage sets, because light is coming from unexpected angles with odd shadows, and because artificial lighting at night has different color casts from daylight -- sometimes multiple color casts from different sources. Our own vision corrects or ignores these differences, but the camera paints a picture that appears unreal or exaggerated.
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