Night Photography
2010 Lance Keimig. Published by Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. DOI 10.1016 B978-0-240-81258-8.00004-1 Most people are shooting with digital cameras these days, but there are still valid reasons to use film at night. Film provides high quality at a low cost, can produce very clean images there is no noise , and with film it is possible to make multi-hour exposures. Although each new generation of digital camera produces less noise in long exposures, it is still impractical to extend...
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Troy Paiva, PRA, El Mirage, California, 2006 i had stopped by the legendary Aviation Warehouse boneyard at El Mirage Dry Lake in California's Mojave Desert many times, trying to gain access for night photography, only to arrive when the office was closed or to be summarily turned away by the staff. After 15 years of trying, my luck finally changed when i arrived on a day when the owner was there. i met with him and showed him samples of my other night work. He was instantly thrilled with the...
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and makes all the difference with this developer. If you do not have a scale accurate enough to measure 0.2 grams, a concentrate solution can be made with 2 grams of Phenidone, 6 grams of sodium bisulfite as a preservative, and water to make 1 liter. Use 100 ml of this solution to make 1 liter of the Diafine recipe. As long as Diafine is available, it makes more sense to use the commercial formula.
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There are two sharpening functions in Lightroom, and they address different needs. Capture Sharpening compensates for the loss of sharpness that occurs during image capture. Output Sharpening compensates for the loss of sharpness during printing. Capture and Output Sharpening work together to provide sharpness consistency throughout the workflow. It is also worth noting that Capture Sharpening is applied in-camera to JPEG files, but RAW files will need sharpening applied in development. In...
High Dynamic Range Imaging
2010 Lance Keimig. Published by Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. DOI 10.1016 B978-0-240-81258-8.00007-1 In situations where the dynamic range of the scene exceeds the ability of the camera to record it, there are several high dynamic range HDR workflow alternatives. All approaches combine multiple exposures of the same scene to capture a larger dynamic range than any single exposure can. In this chapter we'll explore three HDR methods. One method is to manually combine different exposures...
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Michael Kenna, Bill Brandt's Snicket, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, 1986 Early in his career, the English photographer Michael Kenna retraced the footsteps of his countryman Bill Brandt to photograph the mill towns of northern England. Brandt made a similar daytime view of this scene in 1937. In Brandt's version, most of the tones are reversed from Kenna's night view the building is dark and the sky is light. Advances in night photography have paralleled advances in photographic technology for...
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i- hardware and software. And that, my friends, will make you a better photographer or artist. Let's be honest HDR techniques are simply methods designed to overcome the limited dynamic range of our camera sensors. With sensor development moving forward at an astonishing pace, anyone with foresight can easily predict that the HDR processes we learn tomorrow will be unnecessary in a few years. That's all well and good for our future shooting, but to paraphrase a former defense secretary, we go...
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1 and mercury vapor. Low-pressure sodium vapor lights are instantly recognizable for their strong h monochromatic yellow-orange color. They are commonly used in Europe to alert drivers that they are about to enter a village or small town. Despite their high efficiency rating, low-pressure sodium vapor lights are rarely used for street lighting in North America because it is difficult to see colors under this g type of lighting. Conversely, high-pressure sodium vapor is the predominant type of...
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Lance Keimig, Totem Pole and Picket Fence, Ocean Beach, San Francisco, 2001 The strange juxtaposition of the totem pole, the picket fence, and the ocean was just too good to pass up. The square format makes for a simple and elegant composition. Hasselblad 500C M, 80 mm f2.8 lens, exposure unrecorded. ilford HP5 film, developed in Diafine. There is plenty of detail in both the shadows and highlights. extremely easy to use and convenient. Diafine is also very stable and has an unusually long...
Tone Curve
The Lightroom Tone Curve panel. The targeted adjustment tool and tonal range split points enable more precise control of the tone curve adjustment. Brightness and contrast can be precisely controlled within specific tonal regions in the Tone Curve panel. Most images may not need adjusting with the Tone Curve panel at all, but it can be a useful tool to make subtle tonal adjustments with greater precision than the basic tools allow. The Tone Curve panel is displayed on a graph, with the tones of...
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i_ is a good strategy to buy the newest and most expensive model you can afford assuming that you plan to print your images. If you don't expect to print your photographs and will only display z them on a Web site, a lesser camera will suffice. The main features to look for when purchasing a new digital camera are the following First and foremost is the ability to shoot RAW files and full manual exposure controls. Look for a CMOS sensor because it is less susceptible to long exposure noise from...
Alfred Stieglitz Night Photography
William Fraser began photographing New York at night about 1896, but there are very few existing y prints of his work because he preferred to exhibit his photographs in the form of projected lantern slides. An article in Scribner's Magazine from 1897 stated that Fraser has succeeded in taking some 7 remarkable park and street scenes on snowy and rainy nights that show with surprising distinctness and truth, very picturesque and interesting aspects of New York.10 It was also noted that Fraser...
The History Of Night Photography
2010 Lance Keimig. Published by Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. DOI 10.1016 B978-0-240-81258-8.00001-6 I Nighttime has been associated with solitude, danger, mystery, and the unknown throughout human history. The night transforms our notion of the world from one of routine certainty to one of mysterious unknowing. The night holds secrets secrets that may engage our curiosity, shelter us, or frighten us. There are those who seek comfort in the night and those who recoil from it. Brave was...
Black And White Film Reciprocity Compensation For Long Exposures
Actual exposure T-Max 100 400 Delta 100 400 shutter speed . When exposures reach a particular threshold, that reciprocal relationship begins to erode. To make matters worse, the rate of reciprocity failure accelerates as exposures get longer, necessitating still more exposure, which in turn reduces the film's sensitivity, which in turn requires more exposure. Worse still, reciprocity failure is not consistent from one film to another. Some films are much more prone to reciprocity failure than...
Contributor Biographies
Troy Paiva has been shooting full moon, time-exposure night work in abandoned locations and junkyards since 1989. His surrealist and whimsical work examines the evolution and eventual abandonment of the communities, structures, and social iconography spawned during America's 20th century expansion into the deserts of the West. His work has appeared in print in a dozen countries. He's had two award-winning monographs published, Lost America Night Photography of the Abandoned Roadside West in...
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Richard Misrach, Stonehenge 4, 1976 Richard Misrach has photographed at night throughout his career, beginning with a documentary project of homeless people in Berkeley, California in 1974. This image was originally printed on long-obsolete Agfa paper that produced a wide range of colors using a split toning technique. Shortly after creating this series of work, Misrach switched to the 8 x 10 view camera and color negative film. He was one of the first artists to produce large-scale...
Vargas Brothers Night Photography
article accompanying an exhibit of the brothers' work titled The Vargas Brothers, Pictorialism, and the Nocturnes, Yenne writes that taking a cue from the silent screen, they concocted a series of elaborate tableaux using moonlight, lanterns, bonfires, flash powder and street i lamps. These theatrical scenes required exposures of up to an hour, and meticulous attention H In contrast to the theatrically staged images of the Vargas Brothers, some photographers y photographed at night for...
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Jessie Tarbox Beals, El Paseo Building, Santa Barbara, ca 1928-1929 Beals is best known as the first woman news photographer, but she is also the first woman to have photographed extensively at night. She was primarily a journalist and commercial photographer, and she worked all her life to compete in a world where women were generally not wanted. Beginning at the World's Fair in 1904 and continuing throughout her career, Beals made many night views, mainly with a large format view camera....
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Due to the limited sensitivity of early photographic processes, exposure times were exceedingly t long, even in the daytime. The oldest existing photograph, which was taken by Joseph Nicephore o Niepce in 1826 or 1827, is a scene from his window in Le Gras, France. Although it is not a night a photograph, the materials he used required an exposure of many hours to record the image on 1 a pewter plate coated with a light-sensitive layer of bitumen of Judea. As the Sun moved across the sky during...
Lens Shades And Flare Blocking Devices
Flare from light sources just outside of the frame can be a major problem at night. For this i reason, it is essential to always use a lens shade, hood, or other flare-preventing device. It is important to choose a shade or hood that is made specifically for the lens you are using. A shade for a longer lens will result in vignetting on a wide-angle lens, and a wide-angle shade 0 will not provide adequate protection on a longer lens. The butterfly-style lens shades that are x designed for zoom...
Camera Choice
Almost any camera that can be mounted on a tripod, has manual exposure control, and has the ability to do extended exposures can be used. Point-and-shoot cameras generally do not work very well at night, and even ones with built-in night scene modes are really only suited for low-light snapshots of floodlit monuments, fireworks, or people shots that combine the camera's built-in flash with slightly extended exposures. The general rule for film cameras is the simpler, the better. Fully...
Margaret Bourke-white
Chinese restaurant in Hamburg's red light district in 1932.22 Brassa 's revealing pictures confirmed people's expectations of Parisian nightlife, but Brandt's more surrealist vision transformed the ordinary into something mysterious and uncertain. hh Brandt had assisted for the great surrealist photographer Man Ray in Paris in 1930, and this 3 experience also shaped his artistic vision. Brandt's book A Night in London23 was published in 1938 by Arts et M tiers Graphiques, the same company that...
Arthur Ollman Photography
There are surprisingly few substantial bodies of night photography from the 1960s, but one notable exception is the work of the late William Gedney. He photographed at night throughout his career, which spanned from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. Most of Gedney's night works are part of larger bodies of images. Major projects included documenting communities in Kentucky, Brooklyn, India, and San Francisco. Gedney's formal architectural studies of quiet neighborhoods at night provide stark...