From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
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Composing and focusing at night
From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
Composing and focusing at night
I'm standing here on the beach wearing the hippest beach attire available here in California right now. That's actually a lie. I am hoping you are going to forgive me my fashion sense. It's very cold, and it's the middle of the night, and I needed all of this to stay warm. That's often what it is when you are doing night shooting. So don't forget that when you're packing your gear and preparing to go out for a long night of night shooting. You might need fingerless gloves, long underwear, all that kind of stuff. It's also very, very dark out now, so dark that we have had to light this scene where I am standing and that rock that's offshore. The human eye is incredible. When it's completely adapted to the dark, it can detect a single photon of light. Our video cameras are not that good, so we have had to throw some extra light in here. I am telling you this because I want you to understand that the scene that I am seeing with my eyes is actually much darker. It's a waxing gibbous moon…
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