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Creative Night
Digital Photography Tips & Techniques
Harold Davis
Creative Night
Digital Photography Tips & Techniques
The night is an uncharted universe filled with surprisingly rich color, texture, and mood just waiting to be captured by your digital camera. But the challenges of night photography are significant. Autofocus doesn't work. Forget about light meters. All exposures are manual. And you can't even see what you're doing.
Harold Davis has mastered those challenges. He'll show you how in this breathtaking, full-color guide, illustrated with his own spectacular night shots.
With his advice, you'll learn how your digital camera can record the magnificent colors of the night. He'll show you how to select the perfect subjects, approach them creatively, choose and use appropriate equipment, and refine your photographic technique for after-dark shooting. You'll even learn how to stay safe on your nighttime ventures.
Learn to see another world. Enter into the unknown: become a creature of the night.
Experience the joy of night photography
Get the right equipment for shooting in the dark
Learn how to expose photos at night
Extend the dynamic range of night photos
Capture star trails
Minimize noise in night photography
Synopsis
Once the sun has set many photographers will pack away their cameras and go home. By doing so, they are missing out capturing some of the most stunning and visually exciting images. While photographing after dark is a formidable task, the intense and unique results are well worth the challenge. Readers can learn to capture those striking images night after night, with Creative Night Photography. Author Harold Davis will walk readers through the intricacies of creative night and low light photography. Illustrated with Harold's stunning night and low light photography, including cityscapes, night events, and landscapes, Creative Night Photography will both inform and inspire. You can find beautiful examples of Harold's night photography at www.digitalnight.us.
Synopsis
Take a well-timed shot in the dark with this invaluable guide to night photography
Shooting in low light and at night is challenging, but it can result in stunning images, so don't put that digital camera away after the sun goes down! Start capturing eerie and intriguing photographs at all levels of light with this information-packed guide from renowned photographer and author Harold Davis.
He provides pages of field-tested techniques to help you find the proper exposures, including the best settings for ISO, aperture, and shutter. Don't miss the intriguing examples of his own work, including cityscapes, landscapes, and more.
- Walks readers through the intricacies of night and low light photography
- Explores the fundamental rules of exposure, including creative settings for ISO, aperture, and shutter speeds
- Informs and inspires with the author's own breathtaking examples of night photography, including cityscapes, landscapes, exciting night events, and other photos that illustrate the concepts
Capture the visually exciting world after the sun goes down with this essential guide to night photography.
About the Author
Harold Davis is an award-winning professional photographer. He is the author of more than 30 books, including Creative Composition: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques, Creative Close-Ups: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques, The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative Digital Post-Processing, and Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers. Harold writes the popular Photoblog 2.0, www.photoblog2.com.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Becoming a creature of the night.
Colors of the night.
Lonely spaces of the night.
Watches of the deep night.
Stacking star trails.
Programming an Interval Timer.
Resources and Websites.
Glossary.
Index.