September 11th, 2009
This is just a quick note to tell you about a new site that I am involved with. It’s called The Night Photography Forum and it does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a forum for Night Photographers! If you want to ask a question to the community, share your latest work or even buy/sell photography gear then you should check it out and register for an account!
Visit The Night Photography Forum now!
Please share this with your friends and anyone you know who may take an interest. This community will be great!
Build multiple
photo albums of your favorite pictures and share them with others online.
August 6th, 2009
This is one of the frames used to make the video.
I found some great free software recently that allows you take a folder of JPEG images and merge them all into a video file. This software is called
JPGVideo . As soon as I saw the possibilites and browsing YouTube for examples produced by JPGVideo I had to try it out at night.
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Tags: long exposure, night photography, slow shutter, time laps, time-lapse, timelapse, video, videos
June 25th, 2009
How to take star trail photos like this:
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Tags: night photography, Softare, Stack, Stacking, Star trails, Startrails.exe, Tutorial, Tutorials
April 22nd, 2009
One of the things I have been experimenting with and learning about lately is car lighting at night. I have found it to be very difficult to get right. Typically cars have a lot of angles on them coupled with metallic paint meaning getting the lighting you add to reflect in the way you want isn’t easy. I’m writing this really just to show them off as I’m quite happy with the results. There is still alot of room for improvement but I think I’m getting there.
Volkswagen Passat VR5
Lighting: Handheld flash gun at various points around the car body.
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Tags: 2009 Renault Laguna Coupé, Audi A6, Audi S3 Sportback, Car long exposure, Car photography, Cars at night, Ford Zephyr, Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 SXi, Volkswagen Passat VR5
April 5th, 2009
This article will cover the basics on Star Trail Photography. A technique which allows you to capture the effect that the rotation of the earth has on a long exposure photograph featuring the stars. I’ll expand on this at a later date.
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Tags: Light pollution, Light trails, long exposure, night photography, Night photography tutorial, Night sky, Star Trail, Star trail photography, Star trail tutorial, Star trails, Stars
