The Nocturnes - Tips on Night Photography, Resources

"No other discipline so readily advances Art's longest and most fervent hope, attainment of a Fourth Dimension, as Night Photography. Its images flow free in timelessness."

Steve Harper,
from Night Light: Five Visions, 1981

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Everything you always wanted to know about Night Photography (NPy) but were afraid to ask! Compiled here (and in the above links) you will find tips and tricks to better Night Photography (by our illustrious members), interviews with noted night photographers, books that showcase the best done in this field, articles that appeared in national and local publications, links to interesting sites, and all about the moon and its phases.

Tips, Tricks and Clues

Basic Night Photography Information by Tim Baskerville
What to Pack by Lance Keimig
What to Leave Out by Tim Baskerville
Where to go - and not by Lance Keimig
Reflections on the Torch in the Night by Edward Abbey
Photography Equipment and Darkroom techniques by Steve Harper
The Ghost Photographer of Bateman, Saskatchewan by Larrie Thomson
The Curious Incident of the Photographer in the Nighttime by David Callen
Common Obstacles in Night Photography by Sean McHugh
Exercise in Night Photography by John D. Moore
Landscape Imaging by the Light of the Full Moon by Bruce Clendenning
What Color, the Night? from the Blog of Ken Wronkiewicz
Sky Photography Tips Dennis Mammana's excellent how-to pages
Gabriel Biderman's blog on NPy and FAP (fine art photography)
Lunar Light Beauty of the Night Sky, from MetropolisMag.com
Excellent resource guide re: Saving Dark Skies from SkyandTelescope.com
The Urban Astronomer Blog offering articles/insight into the night sky

BLOGS

The Nocturnes NPy Blog by Tim Baskerville
Words, sort of about . . . Night Photography Blog by Joe Reifer
Night Photography Blog by night-owl about town, Andy Frazer
Excellent Twilight + NPy Blog by Tom Paiva

Articles

Review - Michael Kenna's NightWork at Friends of Photography by Tim Baskerville
(PHOTO METRO - the unpublished "last" Issue, 2001)
A History of Night Photography by Lance Keimig
Night Light Photography by Paul Raedeke
(PHOTO METRO - Night Photography Issue, March 1983)
Dark Ventures, A Study of Black-and-White Night Photography
by Steve Harper

Interviews

Photographer Does His Best Work in the Dark
Interview with Tim Baskerville by Laura McInstry, November 1991
On the Shoulders of Giants
Interview with Michael Kenna by Tim Baskerville
The Photo Metro Interview with Steve Harper
by Paul Raedeke, March 1983
ViewCamera Interview with Richard Misrach (re: the language of night)
by John Paul Caponigro, Sept/Oct 1998

Introductions, Forewords

Foreword to Matthew Lennert's Answer Yourself by Tim Baskerville
Introduction to Michael Kenna's Night Work by Tim Baskerville

Audio / Video

Night of the Living Nocturnes [sic] a film by alum Andy Frazer
"My first YouTube Video" Time Lapse NPy by Dan Heller, July 2007
"Another Time Lapse movie" by Dan Heller, July 2007
"Photography and its Future" interview with Dan Heller, KQED radio August 2007
ProArts artist talk on NPY with Alum John Vias
Lost on Interstate 80 near Winnemucca Troy Paiva interviewed on ArtLand, Brit TV
"Shadows and light across this land" Minnesota Public Radio interview w/Chris Faust

Letters to the Editor

To Architecture Boston Magazine by Tim Baskerville, August 2007