3 Essential Skills for Night Photography

No matter what subject you choose to photograph at night, you’ll need to master certain skills. Among those skills are focusing at night, composing when you can barely see anything through the viewfinder, achieving the correct exposure when you can’t get a meter reading, holding detail everywhere in the frame, controlling noise, and more. Let’s start with focusing at night.

FIGURE 3-1: Milky Way over Lone Eagle Peak and Mirror Lake, Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado. July 11, 2018, 1:34 a.m. Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L II USM. Land: Two rows, four camera positions per row. For the upper ...

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