Notes on night photography, slow shutters and quiet places.
Fog rolled in around 1 a.m. and turned every sodium lamp into a soft orb. Thirty-second exposures at f/8 kept the water glassy while the ferries left thin trails of light. The trick was patience: wait for the wind to drop, then shoot fast before the next gust.
Read more →The two-second timer works, but a cable release lets me time the exposure to the moment a car turns the corner. It weighs nothing and has never needed a battery.
Read more →Light pollution is not the end of the world. Stacking 180 short frames removed most of the orange glow, and the trails around the pole star came out clean enough to print at A3.
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