IS3 Photo Genre or Technique

Looking over the number of photography techniques, I am very interested to learn more about nighttime photography.

Researching the history of nighttime photography, the first photographers to actually produce large bodies of work at night were Brassai and Bill Brandt. . In 1932, Brassai published Paris de Nuit, a book of black-and-white photographs of the streets of Paris at night. During World War II, British photographer Brandt took advantage of the black-out conditions to photograph the streets of London by moonlight.

By the 1990s, British-born photographer Michael Kenna had established himself as the most commercially successful night photographer. His black-and-white landscapes were most often set between dusk and dawn in locations that included San Francisco, Japan, France, and England. Some of his most memorable projects depict the Ford Motor Company's Rogue River plant, the Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in northern England, and many of the Nazi concentration camps scattered across Germany, France, Belgium, Poland and Austria.

One thing I curious to learn more about is digital noise (which means when our exposures become to long. Most new digitals have this build in and it has names like luminance control and dark frame subtraction. Dark frame subtraction entails the camera immediately recording a second exposure after the first, but without opening the shutter. The noise is then removed leaving a clean night shot. Needless to say, keeping track of your exposure is crucial. My sites below gives step-by-step method to creating a nice clean nighttime photo.

Helpful Sites


http://www.opendigitalphotography.com/Shooting-Tips/Night-Digital-Photography/Shooting-in-the-Dark-Night-Digital-Photography-Tips.html Sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_photography 1. Sites

http://www.mediacollege.com/photography/types/night/ 2. Sites



Photos

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/eso_night_sky.jpg

1. I go crazy for these types of photos and wonder how they do it. They always remind me of the museum of man and nature and just going there to see the Auditorium.The abstract and intense usage of interesting exposure have held a soft childhood memory.

http://finegrain.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/burnt-out-car-at-night-3-mar-07-penang-v2-edit-b.png

2.Who doesn't love a big old rusty car being brought back to life? At first when I looked at this, I admire the photographers decision to make the car the focus point while drawing the viewers eye to the street lights! Great lighting! Wonderful rule of thirds.

http://www.timwill.com/june/210.jpg

3. Again another starry night fetish. I like how this photo also has an abstract cicrular motion, It Creates fabulouis series of lines/implied lines. Also the glare off the houses makes great contrast to the sky.