Waiting for the light and getting your expose spot on is key for low light landscape photography. I often think that landscape photographers would be good at fly-fishing. Just look at the similarities. Both activities require a willingness to purchase expensive equipment. There’s often a need to be knee-deep in water. Oh, and did I mention the one that got away? (Delete as applicable: a potentially award-winning fish/ sunrise or sunset that was oh so very nearly spectacular but didn’t…

Using ND filters are becoming more common place.  To create an image you need a certain amount of light. If I were to tell you that I regularly use a filter that reduces the amount of light that reaches a camera’s sensor would you think me a little odd? Well, there is such a filter and it’s called an ND or neutral density filter. Changing the shutter speed can have a dramatic effect on moving subjects in an image. The…

Night Photography and Long Exposure photography Understanding the basics My name is Tony Worobiec. I teach a MyPhotoSchool course on Digital Low Light Photography. In this article I will aims to cover the main technical problems you are likely to encounter when photographing in low light or at night. Many inexperienced photographers think that there are many difficult technical challenges involved with this kind of photography, but as you will quickly discover, photographing at night is no more difficult than…

Most of the time when we’re taking photographs we try to use a shutter speed fast enough to freeze any movement and prevent camera blur, either from subject movement or from camera shake. But for more creative photography, it can also be fun to experiment with long exposure photography, and purposely create some kind of motion blur in our photographs. This is created by either subject movement or from deliberately moving the camera. The most common use of long exposure…