Anyone here taken any night time city portraits?

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I have an engagement shoot coming up in a month or so, and I'm planning to do it at night around Oxford, as that is what I will likely be doing in January at their wedding.

Ideally I don't want to carry or use any lighting, as I was hoping to get away with using just the ambient lights in city for lighting at hand-holdable shutter speeds. Just worried if there will be enough light though.

Has anyone got a sample of city portraits using just the ambient light without a tripod etc?

 

[An Exception]

Is there no chance of getting in there for a night and just having a walk around and firing off some test shots?

I think that's what I will have to do. I don't really mind grain and noise, and am quite happy going to ISO6400 F1.4 and around 1/125.

I can normally hand-hold slower shutter speeds, but I'v learnt on shoot's like this, I'm usually running on a bit of adrenalin...