Night photography: Technique, motifs & practice

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Night photography: technique, motifs & practice

Are your photos still rather dull at night? Then you are cordially invited to a three-hour photo tour: just in time for the blue hour, professional photographer Marko Bogdanovic will take you into the dark to illuminate your night photography know-how. Multiple and long exposures, light painting, portraits in shop window light, city lights, city panoramas, high-contrast architecture or the light trails of moving traffic ... With your trainer, you will explore the darkness in 27 video lessons in order to track down the available light of the night or to set the scene with tools such as flashes, LED panels and flashlights. On your nocturnal foray, you will encounter all kinds of tips and tricks on possible equipment, the right camera settings and image post-processing. So that you can follow the instructions, you will be photographing at locations that can be found almost everywhere.

Acquire basic and expert knowledge for taking high-quality night shots.
Find out which camera technology, settings and simple aids are suitable for night photography.
Photograph different subjects, create different types of images such as panoramas and HDR images.
Included for inspiration and image editing are photos taken during the training.

Preparation and planning, execution and post-processing - technique, motifs and practice of night photography - transform "dull" and "noisy" into an image-clear "wow"!

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content: 3 h Video training
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use
Bonus: including working material

Examples of use

Panaroma of a city at night - the training shows what to look out for when creating panoramas.

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The city lights in the panorama - during training you will learn what to look out for.

Illuminated building at night - the night photography training shows how the shot works.

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The building is well lit? - Photograph it with the right camera settings and a great reflection.

Portrait of a woman at night with bokehs in the background.

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The lights of the night offer exciting possibilities - here: subtle bokehs.

Trails of light from road traffic, taken at night.

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Find out how to capture road traffic in streaks of light.

Taking creative night shots - during training, a barn lying in the dark is illuminated with a traveling light and color LEDs.

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Get creative and use simple aids to illuminate things that are lying in the dark, for example.

Tips and tricks for night photography, with which exciting night shots can be taken.

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Technique, motifs & practice - sharpen your eye for exciting night-time perspectives.

Entry and basics

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Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 1.1 Intro and introduction

This video starts with an overview of this training course. You will also find out what you can expect in the next three chapters.

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Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 1.2 Advantages and disadvantages of night photography

From personal experience, Marko can tell you some of the pros and cons of night photography and what you can expect.

Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 1.3 Camera technique and tripod

This part will give you an insight into which camera equipment, which lens and tripod, which power bank and batteries Marko uses in this video training. He explains why exactly these will be used here.

Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 1.4 Lights and exposure

In this section, Marko gives you an overview of the lighting equipment he uses in this training course. Flashes, LED panels, flashlights and other tools are used here.

Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 1.5 Important tips before you start

Before the training starts, Marko gives you lots of different quick tips. These are all about night photography.

Stadtlichter

Night photography: technique, motifs & practice: 2.1 Tour of the area

In this video, Marko explains how you can create meaningful photos at night without any aids, using only the available light. He also briefly discusses the topic of long exposure.

Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 2.2 Hand-held photography without a tripod

In this part, you can see which camera functions can help you to take a sharp and low-noise photo at night if you don't have a tripod to hand. Marko also shows you which Blender and ISO he sets to achieve the desired result. Posture can also play an important role here.

Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 2.3 Multiple exposures for high-contrast architecture

Marko explains step by step how exposure bracketing works, how it is set in the camera and how it is used at the end. The white balance in the camera in combination with the color mood "on location" produce an individual result. Marko explains what you should pay attention to here.

Night photography: Technique, motifs & practice: 2.4 Panorama - sunset

This section will show you that it can be advantageous to work with a graduated filter, what it is used for and why. Of course, the camera settings and camera alignment are just as important to ensure that the preparations and settings for a panorama shot pay off in the end.

Night photography: Technique, motifs & practice: 2.5 City at the blue hour

In this video, Marko explains what the blue hour is, what you should bear in mind and how you can prepare for it. You'll also learn how to optimize the image using a graduated filter and capture a brilliant result.

Night photography: Technique, motifs & practice: 2.6 City panorama

In this training section, Marko will explain to you why ISO is so important for night shots, what you should pay attention to when making the settings and what the problems and difficulties can be with panoramic shots of this kind. Here you can see for yourself how you can avoid them.

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Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 3.1 How do you create bokehs?

There are a few important factors that play a role in creating brilliant bokehs in portrait backgrounds. Marko will explain these in more detail here. See what you can expect here.

Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 3.2 Portrait with available light

Photographing at night with available light is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Join Marko on his search for useful light and find out what he looks for.

Night photography: Technique, motifs & practice: 3.3 Photographing with shop window light

Shop windows are not only wonderful when it comes to displaying. They are also ideal for impressively illuminating models at night.

Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 3.4 Slow shutter speed with flash

Most people consider a slow shutter speed in combination with portrait photography to be the wrong setting. Nevertheless, Marko shows you here how you can work creatively with it.

Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 3.5 Unleashed flash

Flashes do not always have to be mounted on the camera. As soon as these are positioned further away from the camera, completely new methods can open up, with which you can let off steam creatively. Here, Marko demonstrates how he combines artificial light with existing light.

Creative shots

Night photography: technique, motifs & practice: 4.1 Light painting - man on the bench

Painting with light in the dark offers many creative possibilities. In this part, Marko will show you how he uses his cell phone light to place a glowing "non-human" on a bench and photograph it.

Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 4.2 Traveling light with flashlight

In this part of the training, you will see Marko illuminating a large barn in a field in the deepest darkness, which cannot be seen with the naked eye. He uses a standard flashlight as an aid to illuminate the area.

Night photography: Technique, motifs & practice: 4.3 Traveling light with colors

Using an LED panel with individually adjustable colors, Marko will illuminate a barn in full color. He also combines two different colors in a single shot.

Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 4.4 Trails of light on the street

Shooting passing cars can often be boring, especially as it's difficult to get a sharp shot. Marko will show you how he captures just the trails of light from the traffic with a long exposure.

Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 4.5 Flashes with color foil

Here Marko shows how he illuminates a vehicle with the help of clip-on flashes. He will use color foils to add more sophistication.

Post-processing

Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 5.1 HDR

Marko shows you how he combines three different exposure brackets into one HDR in Lightroom in a very simple and easy way. He also shows you how to straighten many different lines at the touch of a button.

Night photography: Technique, motifs & practice: 5.2 Portrait

To get started, Marko will show his approach to developing a portrait in Lightroom. In the second step, he concentrates only on the image look, which he creates using only a gradation curve.

Night photography: technique, subjects & practice: 5.3 Removing noise

For many people, noise in an image can be a disruptive factor or a stylistic device. Marko shows you how to remove slight noise in the depths of an image using two variations.

Night photography: Technique, motifs & practice: 5.4 Barn

The combination of several images will be the focus of this video. Here Marko uses several layers in Photoshop and masks for an image montage.

Night photography: Technique, motifs & practice: 5.5 Petrol station

Marko uses a fill method in Photoshop to merge several images together. The advantage of this is that you can manually determine how many and which light trails are visible in an image.