Night shots with LF????

[Tim Meisburger]

There is a website called Nocturnes (www.thenocturnes.com) devoted to night photography, and they have a wealth of information.

[ImSoNegative]

Ive always wanted to try night shots with LF.

[patrickjames]

I have had film move once or twice... It is a bummer when it happens. If I was going to be doing lots of long exposures I would probably modify a holder or two for double sided tape to eliminate the problem. There is sure to be a thread or two on here about it.

[mike rosenlof]

I've done night photos on LF a few times, nothing I'd call overly successful yet, but I'm trying. If you're doing something like a city skyline, it is difficult to overexpose your film. Keep the shutter open just as long as you dare. If you're getting to the situation where your light areas are the majority of the scene, not just points of light, you can start using metering techniques more or less like daylight. Night scenes tend to have a large range of brightness, unlit dark places to very bright light sources. You'll want to consider what shadow areas you want to let go completely black and what hilights you want to let go completely white. If using B/W, you can use contrast lowering film development to decrease the area of the complete black or white.

[Tajmul12345]

Most of the times i shot night because many wedding celebrate at night.It is so interesting.

[Joseph Dickerson]

There is a website called Nocturnes (www.thenocturnes.com) devoted to night photography, and they have a wealth of information.

Is The Nocturnes live and well? I can't seem to get the link to go anywhere.

JD

[Peter Mounier]

Works for me Joseph.

Peter

[Bob Farr]

I was able to get to the home page of www.thenocturnes.com

Seems to be working, thanks for the link.

Bob

[Joseph Dickerson]

Bob & Peter,

Thanks...today it's working for me.

Happy Hogmanay to you both!

JD

[BetterSense]

There's a few ways to focus at night. One is to use a very bright flashlight for a bit, and focus on something.

A bright laser pointer is even easier. Simply point the laser at the foreground object to be focused on and focus until the spot on the ground glass is a pinprick instead of an orb. I have used this technique with forward tilt to get perfectly focused forgrounds at night; in fact it's easier than doing it during the daytime because no loupe is necessary.