I’m a night owl. For some reason I’ve always loved the night. To me there’s nothing better than a nice calm walk at 2 AM, with no one around to disturb my peace while I look up at the night sky. My brain seems to concentrate better and I can get more things done. I guess there’s just something about the darkness that relaxes me.
Because of that, even before photography was a passion, I have always been so attracted to night photography. Everything from the bright night lights to the shining stars, it always seems to catch my eye.
I naturally wanted to get better at taking night shots, but it was such a weakness of mine that I didn’t even want to try at first. Learning how to use all the settings to create the best possible image when dealing with very little light source was challenging to say the least.
Time passed and I eventually gathered up the courage to get out of my comfort bubble and start trying night photography. I had done some research regarding composition, best camera settings & equipment, so I felt like I was ready.
I quickly realized that night photography is just a whole other ball game compared to photographing in the daytime. It involves carrying around more gear and not being able to see everything so clearly sometimes. Regardless, a couple weeks went by and creating images in the dark night slowly became my favorite kind of photography.
Now night photography, for the most case, involved one particular piece of equipment that I honestly just despise, and that piece of equipment is
***drumroll***
the tripod. That damn tripod.
I have a love and hate relationship with tripods. They come in so handy when you’re faced with low light situations but at the same time they’re just a pain to drag everywhere.
Fast forward almost a year and the night has become my favorite time of day to shoot.
Besides the bright night lights, one other thing I love about night photography is it gives me the ability to create an image that you cannot physically see, for example traffic trails or smooth water from a lit fountain.
I’ll end this blog with a quote that I personally love, which goes:
”The darker the night, the brighter the stars. - Fyodor Dostoevsky”
