May 2015
Beginner to intermediate
248 pages
7h 45m
English
Content preview from Night Photography and Light Painting, 2nd Edition
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In August 2008 I was invited to write a book on night photography by Focal Press, something I had thought about doing for many years. I was at Mono Lake in California’s Eastern Sierra teaching a workshop on the subject when I received the call; ironically, my friend Jill Waterman, whose own night photography book had just been published, was a guest at the workshop with me. Jill had freshly printed copies of her book with her, and I was eager to recommend it to my students. Along with Andrew Sanderson’s earlier film-based night photography book, Jill’s was one of the few books on the subject to embrace night photography for its own unique characteristics and not simply to teach people how to shoot fireworks and ferris wheels at the ...