Discover essential night photography tips to capture stunning images in low light, regardless of your camera. Improve your skills and unleash creativity at night.
This course helps you take stunning night photos, whether you're using a phone or a fancy SLR. You'll learn tips to avoid pitfalls like blurry images and discover how to make the most of low-light conditions. Unleash your creative side when the sun goes down!
Take beautiful photos that capture the magic of the night and avoid night photo traps. Use any camera from phone to SLR.
Stop taking blurry photos with night photography tips. Unlock the power of any camera at night. Exploit the creative possibilities that come when the sun goes down.
Photographing at night opens up a whole new world of possibilities. Typically, shooting at night means shooting in low light, which can be a real challenge. Endless blurry party photos on facebook, or faces nuked by flash are proof of that. But believe it or not, anyone can improve their night photos, and you don't necessarily need a fancy camera to do so. Just a few amazing night photography tips can do the trick for you. Not only that, but the creative possibilities you get after the sun goes down are huge! Not as many people take photos at night, so you have the opportunity to take unique, eye-catching photos that will wow your friends after taking this night photography tutorial.
What night photography tips will you learn?
â The main problems you face when taking photos at night.
â The camera settings you need to understand to take great night photos.
â How different types of cameras perform at night.
â Getting the most out of your camera.
â Getting creative with night photography.
â Processing photos taken at night.
To give you the tools and knowledge you need to take control over how your night photos look.
To give you the confidence to get good photos at night
To show you how to unlock the creative potential of night photography
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Neil Creek is as passionate about taking photos as he is teaching people how to do it. Having written 3 best selling photography ebooks - the Photo Nuts series, published by Digital Photography School, Neil takes students from understanding the basics of the camera to becoming a better photographer. Neil has been described as having an enthusiastic and knowledgeable teaching...
Firstly, this is a beginner course, and assumes little if any previous knowledge. I'd honestly say that the material covers the vast majority of knowledge, techniques and considerations that most people would need to take better photographs in darker conditions (not just night time). So in this regard, I think the course is quite good.
Having said that... this course isn't without issues.
Neil clearly has put a lot of time putting this course together. However, I feel that it suffers from a few problems which can either be indications of real-world mistakes that even instructors/pros make from time to time, (which they are) but some may find these issues unbelievably distracting/unprofessional. I think this would be particularly true for those learners who suffer from OCD, are tired, or have poor concentration.
Personally, I found the paired lesson structure quite helpful, With each pair, the first covered "shooting the scene on location and the thought processes Neil goes through" then a second video lesson follows Neil as he "processes" his images using Lightroom at home. This was all good and well until he broke that pattern with providing the on location "Fireworks" lesson, but then DIDN'T pair it with the expected processing video. Instead he mentions later in the conclusion, that he will add that piece in the "Advanced" course. So I honestly felt that he should have either left fireworks out entirely, or finished the pair for consistency. The abrupt change had me assuming something had gone wrong with the Udemy system... until I watched the conclusion video.
Furthermore, there are real world mistakes/issues in the videos themselves from time to time. His use of a lavalier mic outside of a night club picked up a lot of background noise that I found distracting in the on-scene night portraiture video. In the end of the firework video, he had just finished photographing the fireworks, but then the camera videoing Neil focused on the background, so he's a blurry figure talking (perhaps this is an example of depth of field issues, or a creamy if not dark bokeh). It's somewhat ironic given he's TEACHING photography, and it's not in focus. While there ARE morality tales, or lessons to be garnered from these mistakes, it undermined his credibility a bit, and I would have re-videoed it, even at home before publishing this course because the scene was done, and the location from then on, offered no benefit to what he was saying. It seemed... lazy... to simply leave the blurry video in. Cut scenes are fine... we don't care what the background looks like if it's of little importance.
Now, finally, while there are many potential image editing software apps out there, Neil exclusively used Lightroom. Now many beginners, (which this course is aimed at) may not use, or even have Lightroom. The subscription based, on-going cost of such software is poorly suited to people on a budget or who are intermittent photographers. Yes it's an industry standard, but I'd have liked to have seen some content based on other software. (The free Lightroom alternative, Darktable) works for Windows, Mac and Linux. GNU Image Manipulation Program is a similar alternative to Photoshop that works on all three major operating systems. Photolab is considerably cheaper than Lightroom but works somewhat similarly, and is a fully commercial product that works on both Windows and Mac. At the beginner stage, I just feel that it's important to consider that Adobe isn't the only solution, and it certainly doesn't suit everyone.
Similarly, while he's honest about mobile phones and compact cameras being less capable than "bridge" and "DSLR" cameras... he really didn't discuss mirrorless models at all, which may "date" this course to a time that they weren't slowly taking over from the DSLR market. That said, the information for DSLRs will absolutely translate to higher end mirrorless models like Canon's R series, Nikon's Z series, Sony's A series, Panasonic's GH series, and the mirrorless (even medium format) offerings of other brands like Fuji's X series.
Anyway, while I've been shooting for decades now, and often in a semi-professional way (just with a day job running a workshop/farm) I'm mostly focused on studio work, daytime portraiture, and landscapes... So darker conditions are a bit of a rare situation for me. It's helpful to see how others think about the processes, even if they're different to my own methods, priorities, and preferences. I think many people would benefit from this class... not just beginners.
This is a good course for learning night photography. I don't get out at night like I'd like to but this course will push me to get out more. Thanks Neil.
Quite good so far, above expectations.
Thank You for this course
Clear explanations of the difficulties of night photography and the importance of editing.
I thoroughly enjoyed this course. Neil is very calm when he teaches which made me feel like I was in a very relaxed learning environment. While I have some photography background, I did learn something new from each section which is what Udemy courses are all about...learning.
So far so good, ready fir the detail now!
The content is good but the videos are super glitchy
I think that the course need more examples of how and why to use that number of ISO instead of another when, for example, photographing the fireworks,
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Mary A. H.
Thank Neil, great class. Easy to implement sadly in such a short period of time all the Lightroom tools have dramatically changed. However, the concept of night photos remains.