O'Reilly Webcast: Digital Night Photography

[rvd5star76]

i love taking night pics take a look at mine on facebook/randymiller1976

[nofear4232]

amazing video!!! best i found in like 12 months... thank you Harold Davis!

[joshish239]

He uses a "intervalvolater" 46:30

[cheneyeful]

I will go shoot tonight

[tillasmax]

This is an amazing video. Thank you for sharing with us.

[marcstravels]

To reduce the noise use the, what Nikon calls, Noise Reduction. It doubles the length of time to take the image, but it removes many of the hot pixels

[LowerTimes]

@marcstravels Do not use noise reduction, it can remove pixels that is a part of the image, which you may want there. It is easy to remove noise in for example photoshop.

[IamSimplyPhil]

amazing..haha EVERYTIME you think you're getting better- you see shots like these from awesome photographers like him.

[LEXPIX]

Very nice.

[kycruisecrazy]

for that first photo with the stars.....How long was the shutter open for? great shot!!

[baldurus1]

Love this, but i just have to say. If you use photoshop or lightroom or equivalent in my mind you cant call yourself a photographer. There are "professional" photographers who spend hours retouching and editing their photos. Why not just skip the photographing and just create an image with photoshop? Call me old fashioned but i want to get the picture right, with my camera. RAW image adjustment is ok, obviously.

[nee42003]

@baldurus1 same here

[GeorgeMaj15]

This inspired me to go out and shoot night shots... Only to find that my camera, even at ISO 100, has horrible, horrible noise, to a point that even with noise reduction software, the pictures seem almost useless. Is there a way for me to fix this, or am I going to have to go upgrade to a camera that not only has compressed 50 ISO but better noise control? I also did have the long-exposure noise reduction setting for secondary processing on as well.

[bvmkarthik]

@GeorgeMaj15 ,

At ISO100, there shouldn't be noice. Its worth checking out if your camera is automatically adjusting it back to higher ISO for some reason. Check that you keep it in full Manual (M).

Apart from that, if your camera doesnt have manual, or for some reason using its own brain, try putting the camera on tripod or a bench or any support and keep the shutter speed to 5 seconds or longer.

[Anubispop2]

@bvmkarthik with very long exposure times (20sec+), you will get some noise even with ISO100.

[waterskippers]

@Anubispop2 If you use a digital camera. That's why it's best to use film for low light photography.

[jitukari]

but to get cameras with such long exposer is so expensive>>>>

[gdhamburg]

This area of photography is new to me, but I now see it in a completely different light (pun intended). I can't wait to head out into the Colorado mountains for some night photography. Thank you for your inspiration!

[RoundTheBendFilms]

okay, I haven't listened to the whole podcast but when taking long exposures, to avoid spending hundreds of dollars on releases, just use the self timer.

[idofha]

Wow All I have to say these are really cool night Pictures. I did not even think this was Possible. Thanks for sharing your talent.