Canon EOS 5D Mark II: Live View and Night Photography

I have shot a few thousand frames with my Canon EOS 5D Mark II now. I’ve photographed a variety of subjects including a few days of rainy professional bicycle stage racing, several landscape subjects, and a productive evening of night photography with The Nocturnes at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. I plan to eventually write up … Continue reading Canon EOS 5D Mark II: Live View and Night Photography

Hints for Night Photography

(Revisions: April 21, 2017; March 8, 2018; December 18, 2018 July; July 2019.) A reader  wrote and asked how I determine exposure times for night photography, and I decided my answer so that others can see it. Once I started writing, I decided to go ahead and share more basic techniques that can be very useful for … Continue reading Hints for Night Photography

Night Photography Workshop

Let me share a few links in one post here. First, this information comes from Andy Frazer’s Night Photography Blog, a great source of information about night photographers and what they are up to. This week Andy posted information about an upcoming workshop sponsored by The Nocturnes: Nocturnes Workshop in Sacramento Tim Baskerville of The … Continue reading Night Photography Workshop

New Book on Night Photography

Excerpted from the Night Photography blog by Andy Frazer: Night and Low-Light Photography This has been a busy summer for night photography books. First, Troy Paiva‘s long-awaited second book Night Vision: The Art of Urban Exploration comes out. Next, Jill Waterman’s new book Night and Low-Light Photography was released early this month… Although I haven’t … Continue reading New Book on Night Photography