Christopher Schneiter over at Luminous Landscape has a very interesting article on taking long exposures at night, extending the tonal range and even using HDR the odd times. I am not a great fan of HDR with all the tone mapping pushed to extremes but the fireworks picture works very well here introducing a whimsical and fun mood to the scene, and almost looking like a giant exploding sunflower.

Read the article at: Luminous Landscape.

Landscape Astrophotography Tutorial – First Night Out from Ben Canales on Vimeo.

In this video, Ben Canales introduces night photography and how he shoots the stars. He shares various tips, techniques, and lessons that you will want to know before your first night out shooting stars.

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Night Photography: Finding your way in the dark from Mark & Angela Walley on Vimeo.

This “Night Photography: Finding your way in the dark” video documents a Full Moon Night Photography Workshop in the Big Bend region of West Texas led by photographers Scott Martin and Lance Keimig.

This photography course just seems like fun: to be with like-minded enthusiasts, working together at interesting locations, doing light painting, and simply being out at a time of day [night] one would usually not venture out alone.

Learn more about the workshop at www.on-sight.com and www.thenightskye.com. Learn more about the filmmakers at www.walleyfilms.com.

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Great tips for shooting Night Photography from Backpacker Magazine.

Read the tutorial at: Backpacker Magazine.

Milky Way Galaxy

Give a [very] smart guy (William Castleman) a [very] good DSLR (Canon 5D), a [very] wide-angle lens (EF 15mm fish-eye), and a bunch of other [very] sophisticated equipment — which by the way the guy says are the ‘simplest equipment’ — and plunk him in the middle of the night at 9:20pm facing East South East on April 21, 2009… and what does he do?

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