Lessons
Class Introduction
01:47 2Safety And Scouting
01:28 3Photo Pills App
03:45 4Civil Twilight Image Prep And Test Shots
12:40 5Setting Intervalometer And Capturing Cityscape
04:04 6Light Painting: Equipment Overview
03:20 7Light Painting: Composing The Scene
03:14 8Light Painting: Setting Sky Exposure Ambient Light
08:06Light Painting: Color And White Balance
05:12 10Light Painting: Mixing Warm And Cool Light
14:58 11Review Cityscape Library
02:01 12Opening Images In Lightroom And Moving In Photoshop
19:29 13Cityscape Image: Layers Theory
07:56 14Cityscape Image: Selections And Mask Theory
05:48 15Cityscape Image: Selection Using Color Range
08:27 16Cityscape Image: Altering Masks
05:36 17Review Light Painting Library
03:01 18Light Painting: Opening As Layers In Photoshop
11:00 19Light Painting: Layer Masks
12:05 20Light Painting: Edit Review
07:59Lesson Info
Safety And Scouting
So one of the most important things about night photography is the daytime. This is our time for scouting, folks. We've gotta get out here early. It's really hard to come into a place when it's pitch dark, find your way around, get compositions and make good images. So we're out here a little bit earlier, sun's just about ready to set, and we're scouting. And one of the most important things is safety, right? When you're walking around at night, you're focused on the sky, you're looking up, you're not paying attention to where you're walking and you've got to be careful. There's been so many situations where you could get yourself into trouble, or gotten myself into near trouble. So for example right here, you can see that there's a cliff fallin' off here. Clearly I don't wanna go over that. So I'm gonna look for my footing, I'm gonna see where I wanna set my tripod up and I'm gonna get my initial compositions. This time of day is great for being able to make your initial compositions ...
without having to guess and take these long exposures to see where you're at, but it also helps us get our focus. So one of the most important things also about pre-scouting is the ability to use your apps on your phone to help you find where the full moon's gonna be, where the Milky Way is going to appear, what time the sun is setting, what time astronomical twilight starts when we can really start hitting those star trails. So it's really important to be on location while it's still daylight and get yourself ready for that night shoot.
Ratings and Reviews
Phillip Ziegler
This course, along with the others by Tim Cooper, are outstanding. His demonstrations and explanations are so clear and easy to follow. I've been out doing long exposure night photography using what i learned from Tim and and delighted by the results.
Jacqueline Hatton
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