Over the last year I’ve had a lot of emails concerning night photography. How? Where? What gear? Bob over at NoTraces.com and I have discussed this topic to death while we’re out shooting under the moon and street lamps. I’ve decided to finally try and put a meager attempt at explaining some of this stuff over the coming weeks/months in a series of posts I’ll dub ‘Night Work’. This is the first post…
There are already quite a few night photography tutorials on the internet. Why do we need another? Well, we probably don’t… You just get to have my take on the subject (good or bad), and now I’ll have a place to point people for the basics..! So here we go…
One of my favorite aspects of photography is capturing something the eye can’t see without help of a camera. When you hold the shutter open for a few seconds or minutes you create a new world of airbrushed clouds, streaking stars, switchblade street lights, silken water, and cars zipping by trailing red whiskers behind as they go who knows where. It’s a magical place…
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