In the past, landscape photography largely ended when the last light of dusk faded from the sky. Today it’s only beginning. The latest digital cameras have made it easy to create images of the landscape at night that film and early digital photographers could only dream of. Equipped with off-the-shelf cameras, more and more photographers are venturing into the night, far beyond the comforting glow of city lights, and returning with spectacular images of places both familiar and unknown that are unlike anything seen before.
Dusk to Dawn: A Guide to Landscape Photography at Night is your guide to this new photographic world. In it, photographer Glenn Randall―author of the bestselling The Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography―teaches you how to plan, shoot, and process professional-quality images of the Milky Way, the aurora, lunar eclipses, meteor showers, star trails, and landscapes lit solely by moonlight. Throughout the book, Randall emphasizes ways to integrate beautiful depictions of the night sky with equally compelling renditions of the land below to create complete landscape images that evoke a sense of place―and a sense of wonder. Equipped with the knowledge in this book, readers will be prepared to create their own nocturnal masterpieces.
Author(s): Glenn Randall
Publisher: Rocky Nook
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 232
Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
1 Preparing for Night Photography
Hiking at Night
Finding Clear Dark Skies
2 Tools for Night Photography
Camera and Sensor
Lenses for Night Photography
Tripods
Accessories for Night Photography
3 Essential Skills for Night Photography
Achieving Critical Focus
Composition at Night
Exposure at Night
Controlling Noise
White Balance
Holding Detail in the Land
4 Planning a Milky Way Shoot
Planning a Shoot of the Milky Way Over Longs Peak
Planning Milky Way Panoramas
5 Shooting the Milky Way
Shooting the Milky Way in a Single Frame
Shooting Milky Way Panoramas
Finding the Nodal Point
Multi-Row Panoramas
Camera Settings for Panoramas
6 Processing Night Landscapes
The Color of the Night Sky
Editing Images Taken on a Moonless Night
Combining Two Images in Photoshop
Selecting Complex Shapes in Night Images
Brightening the Sky and Darkening the Land Near the Horizon
Processing Night Panoramas
7 Advanced Techniques for Night Landscapes
Light Painting
Focus Stacking at Night
Reducing Noise with Stack Mode>Median
Using Star-Tracking Camera Mounts
8 Photographing Star Trails
Exposure for Star Trails
Composing Star-Trails Images
Editing Star-Trails Images
Retouching Jet Streaks
Blending the Images to Create the Star Trails
Closing the Gaps
9 Shooting the Aurora
Preparing for an Aurora Shoot
Exposure for the Aurora
Composing Photographs of the Aurora
Processing Photographs of the Aurora
10 Photographing Meteor Showers
Photographing Meteor Showers
Shooting and Processing an Image of the Geminid Meteor Shower
11 Photographing Lunar Eclipses
Assembling a Composite Image of a Lunar Eclipse
12 Photographing Moonlit Landscapes
Exposure for Moonlit Landscapes
Processing Moonlit Landscapes
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