Learn how to capture the drama and beauty of the nighttime landscape in these tutorials filmed along the surreal shoreline of the Salton Sea and in the Anza-Borrego Desert.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Roadmap for the course
- Preflight check: A review of equipment
- Finding compositions in the daylight
- Understanding the rhythm of the night
- Exposing at night
- Focusing at night
- Setting white balance at night
- Exploring different compositions at night
- Photographing at the blue hour
- Creating a night image with reflections
- Using long exposures to blur motion
- Finding compositions in the dark
- Introduction to painting with light
- Using a fill light to paint at night
- Light painting for creative effect
- Light painting with a flash
- Light painting using roads and passing cars
- Finding the right setup for the shot (pros and cons of a full moon)
- Shooting the rising moon
- Shooting HDR at night
- Using a fisheye lens for night photography
- Shooting the stars in a night landscape
- A review of key images
Taught by
Seán Duggan
