Do This For Excellent Night Photography
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- čas přidán 10. 01. 2024
- Love night photography and want to improve? Trying out night photography for the first time? Or just want some ideas on how to get better at photography in general? Then this video is for you.
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Man, what a great vid Tim!! - I am defo not a winter person, but really do like lights and just the mood.
Looking how you used light and reflections in your work was so cool!
1:40 a particular fave!
I have been a photographer for about 20 years, I have an AAS in Photographic Imaging Technology, started on color both negative and reversal, tried some b/w then switched to digital in college,. For a couple years I was shooting Live performance for a local music venue. I loved it and the bands loved the photos as did the club. Unfortunately just when I was discovering my style , and my work was starting to get noticed, I was the victim of identity theft (My photo business was my name of course) and I was forced to totally rebrand myself. Then a few months later the club went under. Being in a small town it was the only venue for local and regional musicians. After that I drifted back to film and started to concentrate on B?W film so I could go Old School and develop my own film and make prints. Over a decade later I was able to set up my darkroom. Ever since the club shut down I have been trying to rediscover my style and I believe I have found something that I will really enjoy going out shooting a lot to zero in on storytelling, night streets, and playing with long exposures, shutter drag, etc. and have FUN. THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!! I wish I could download it. Gonna be watching this one more than twice!!
Wow what a story! Glad to hear you’re back at it now though and I’m so happy you found the video useful :)
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Photography is a CREATIVE PROCESS, many people don’t even understand that, no one has to wait to move to a big city with abundant activity in order to make great art… but many people do and that’s why they never grow as an artist. Work with what you have at hand, put your hard work and enjoy the results of your creativity!
Yeah exactly :)
I love stolling around Liverpool this time of year just after dark, the switch over between day shoppers and the night crowd, the lights, laughter, muscians. greaat vid and right up my street cheers
Ah man, I love Liverpool - second only to London for cities in the UK in my humble opinion!
Thank you for the videos i always learn something new or get ideas from your videos :D
Thank you! That’s the best kind of compliment 🙏🏻
Great video Tim. Some wonderful images there and some good guidelines too.
Thanks.
Thanks! Glad you think so 🙏🏻
Happy New Year Tim! Thanks for another instructive but entertaining video! Although I knew about the curiosity gap beforehand, you comprehensibly have demonstrated how much more powerful (here's the word again ;-) this concept works at night, which is missing in all other videos I have seen on this topic. What I really appreciate in this kind of your videos is your ability to come straight to the point without waffling but in a humorous way of presentation.
Thank you! Really glad you appreciate the video. There is a lot of content on CZcams already so I’m always thinking about how I can keep it concise and hopefully add a little bit to what is already available, so glad to hear you enjoyed this one!
great video, some good tips and great examples shown. I love night photography, its the best!
Thanks heaps!
Happy New Year!! Great video full of inspiring ideas. I don't shoot much at night but after watching this it has spurned me on to get out there. Thanks for all your great content. 🙂
Thanks mate! Much appreciated and happy shooting! 📸
LOVE JKJ. Would love to have his sleepless book. It is over $100. Too rich for my wallet.
I don’t do a lot of night photography. Yes, being in a city helps. Downtown Seattle at night is scary. Besides buses, there virtually are no cars on the road. The homeless and people with psychiatric problems (I was a psych nurse for 30 years. I know my people) dominate the streets. I don’t feel safe alone on the street. In addition, the last bus leaves at 2030. It is bad news missing that bus.
I have started doing intentional camera movement. ICM works well at night with the longer shutter speed. At least at night I don’t have to use a ND filter.
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Yeah he’s incredible - especially his night work. And ahh man yeah I hear it can be tricky in a lot of places over there at night - not ideal! ICM can be a lot of fun though :)
Valid points well illustrated, Tim. Attention-getting thumbnail, as well. Vid hints you’ve spent lots of time in red light districts😊. Imperfection at night is a good carry over from same during the day - Wabi-Sabi genre in photography. Nailing exposure and mixed light white balance can be a challenge, IMO; wish the vid had addressed these further.
“Elephant in the room” IMO is personal safety when out and about at night, especially at less crowded places/hours in urban areas.
In less populated venues there’s astro photography, intentional camera movement, light painting, and hunting for light islands like fuel stations and lonely streets w/a few isolated lamps. Less “powerful” perhaps😊, few people, not always “street” but doable.
Cheers!
Thanks for the comment as always mate! Who doesn’t like to start their evening in the red light district? 😂
Tried to keep this video concise and not include too much to process, have seen safety and other night photo techniques covered a lot in other CZcams videos but I know what you mean there! It’s certainly a genre all to itself with everything that comes along with that!
Nice shots and tips, Tim! Insightful stuff 👏
Thank you! Glad you think so :)
Hi Tim, this is only the first video of yours that I've watched. I clicked on it as I've been interested in night photography, and I resonate with it so much, especially when you mention photos that show emotion that don't have to be perfect. I clicked on the video to learn more about night photography, and I saw that you're based in Cheltenham where I live too! (I didn't even know this was a thing on youtube), and also you're a fellow Fujifilm shooter!! I've only been doing photography now as a hobby for the past 6 months or so, I've always been interested ever since I was a kid, but now that I'm working I've got myself an XT3 that I love to bits. I'd love to maybe catch up over coffee, or do some shoots / photo walks together if you would do that kind of thing. I wouldn't normally write a message like this but i thought I'd put that out there cause why not!
Hey mate! Thanks for reaching out! Great to hear you live in Cheltenham as well, quite tricky for photography isn’t it? Thanks for the offer for a meet and coffee, at the moment my schedule is pretty jam packed but I’m thinking about organising a community meet up some time soon so will shout you then if that comes about! Happy shooting 📸
Excellent advice with some really lovely examples. I'm a keen night photographer and use a lot of the techniques or ideas you mention here, but one to add is the potential for great images that really engage the viewer's curiosity by using reflections from windows or cars, particularly as a way of creating multiple layers.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video Tim. The shot of the girl fixing her shoe was a great street shot. Cheers.
Thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
I really enjoyed these night photos and your thoughts for what to think about when creating photos. I just wish night happened at more convenient time and not after a long day of work ;)
Thanks heaps, Michael! And yeah I hear ya - I’m still yet to pick up my camera in 2024 as I’ve been so busy at work!
@@timjamiesonphotos Oh, man! Bummer about work busyness. Here’s to some quality time with your camera very soon!
@MSladekPhoto Thanks mate! Hopefully get out for a proper session soon :)
Motion is a good one that I like to experiment with. I’m not very good at it but it’s a process.
Yeah exactly! Experimentation and practice was what it’s all about 🙏🏻
Amazing video, man!! I am defo not a winter person, but do love lights and the mood night time brings.
Particularly loved that shot at 1:40 !
Thanks Courts! Yeah to be honest I’m a bit over the winter now, roll on spring I say! 👌🏻
What a great video, Tim. You’ve made me want to go out with my camera tomorrow evening. I think you said in a previous video that you used to be a teacher - you’ve got a really good presenting style, such educational videos, thank you.
Ahh thank you Max! You’re too kind. Super stoked to hear that the vid’s inspired you to go out and shoot, hope you get some great ones! 📸
Thanks so much Tim! Good images, good ideas. I’ll try it. Geoff
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
Excellent Thank you
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 👌🏻
Top Video! I like your shots and the moody style!
Thanks!
I really appreciate the encouragement to shoot something a little out of my comfort zone. I also live in North West Arkansas so no big city, bright lights but I’ll give it ago. Very good video, Thanks!
Thank you! Really glad to hear that. It can definitely be tricky in a smaller place but give it a go anyway and see what you can get 🙏🏻📸
best channel that i ever found, many hugs from italy
Thank you! That’s so kind 🙏🏻
Beautiful shots my dude!
Thank you, Rich!
Definitely, you have very good photographic vision. I guess you upgrade your vision more often than your gears.
Thank you, that’s very kind! I try to improve my skills more than buying gear for sure
Great video man !!
Many thanks!
Great content with inspiration. Subscribed & looking forward to binge watching your video's😁
Thank you! Happy to hear that, hope you enjoy 🙏🏻
I really enjoy watching your videos and find them to be very inspirational, especially photo-wise (which is a big thing). Some of your shots are beautiful (ie the one at 6:22). Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing!
Ah that’s so kind of you to say, thank you 🙏🏻
Great video! I have always enjoyed "night" photography, or if that wasn't possible, then "low key" photography with OFC, but I've never been brave enough to truly try my hand at street. Maybe the ideas in your video will let me dip my toe in the pond gradually, so to speak.
Brilliant! It’s a lot of fun - happy shooting 📸
Great video!!! 😍
Thanks!
Great content. Much to think about.
Thank you, Gary!
Really useful video, Tim.
I've been itching you go out and shoot at night for the last few weeks. The next time, I do go, I'll definitely be using the advice in this episode.
I'm glad you mentioned Imperfection as I often hesitate shooting at night because my Canon 70D struggles in very low light. I think I need to be embrace the noise I get at high ISOs and just enjoy getting the images. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Ash! Glad to hear it. Yeah 100%, as soon as I started being less precious with my settings or getting sharp noise free images, it became so much more fun and my work got better because of it :)
Great video, thanks
Thanks, David! Glad you enjoyed 🙏🏻
Thanks Tim, lot's of useful information there. Winter has arrived here in earnest, it's well below freezing now. It will likely be a few months before I'm out on the street again after dark.
It’s certainly chilly here too!
this video deserve a lot more viewers. superb
Thank you! That’s very kind :)
Definitely some of your best images. Was it the curiosity gap or the moody colours - dunno. Much food for thought here. 👍
Thanks a lot, Bill! Much appreciated 🙏🏻
Thanks for inspiring me Tim. Been living in NY now for 10 years and never explored night photography (ridiculous i know 😂). Cant wait to start. Great video btw...
So happy to hear that mate! Enjoy photographing the nights 🙏🏻
My favourite style of street photography, shooting night street in Tokyo was the dream! Great video mate, if you ever fancy shooting drop me a message, I'm only down the road from Chelt
Amazing mate! I spent a very brief time in Tokyo barely scratched the surface - has to be the Mecca for night photography. Thanks for the invite man! Will have more time in Feb as currently snowed under in my day job :)
Great stuff
Many thanks :)
Starting in November through marcheach year I go out every Wednesday for night photography.
I love shooting at night, but in the summer the sun doesn't set until almost 10 and the 70 minute bus ride home means I can only do it in winter when the sun sets around 445.
Good video.
Yeah that’s it mate, I don’t shoot at night in the summer, as it’s light so long into the evening. Glad to hear you get out regularly in the winter though :)
You made me go for an evening/night photo walk, Greetings from Oslo! Nice Video and tips! :)
Wicked! So happy to hear that, hope you got some killer shots 👌🏻
@@timjamiesonphotos We will see! 🥶❄️😁
Good advices
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You had 10.000 subscribers when I just hit the subscribe button, unfortunately it still says 10.000, but I'm sure to be no. 10.001 ;) Anyway, the next 9.999 will come much quicker because your videos are really good and your photos are even better, so keep doing what you are doing and thanks for that!
Haha well many thanks for being the ten thousand and first :). And that’s very kind thank you - hopefully can get better at producing videos the more I make :)
Loved it.
Would or have you used B&W nite shots or just colour? Your thoughts !
Thank you! Great question, at the moment I can’t get enough of colour in my photos so I pretty much shoot exclusively, day or night, in colour. But if you check out my insta I’ve got some b&w on there including night photos :)
2:15 in two words Wabi-Sabi, the perfection of impefection a form of Yin & Yang in photography. The idea goes right back to Japanese wood cuts from 19th Century and earlier pottery, this also applies to phographic images from many Japanese photographers dated from around the 1960s, think of PROVOKE magazine, the images were either incomplete or distorted in some way either by taking the shot or post work in the darkroom.
Yeah I’m familiar with philosophy of wabi-sabi, but that’s not really what I was going for here. It doesn’t need a label, I was just suggesting to focus less on the perfect image :)
great video! shooting at night has always been a nightmare for me because, never found the correct settings for shooting (got a XT fuji) and also when I try to edit in LR... what should I prioritize? speed or aperture?
Thanks glad you enjoyed! My settings for night street photography is always to shoot wide open on a prime lens, try and have a shutter speed of 1/100th or over and then vary the iso depending on the available light. That works for me on my Fuji cameras!
a photo doesn't need to be sharp to be good, sometimes breaking out your grandfather's old lens collection from the 60s is a better option, I use an F mount 40mm lens at night and if I am feeling really creative I will even go black and white or 6 bit in processing.
Yes that’s true, a photo doesn’t need to be sharp to be good :)
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thumbnail shows xt-2 but affiliate link has a xe-4…what did you use to shoot these nice crispy night photos? thnx
Photos in the video are mix of shots with xt2 and xe4 :)
Where do you find phone boots in 2024?
Haha that photo is about 3 years old now, but the phone box is still there
Do you approach people for permissions after you’ve taken photos of them? Or are they “fair game” if they are in a public space? I have a lot of night shots that include people but there was either no way to get permission from everyone in a shot, or got back to find someone afterwards. For example I’ve got a great photo of a man selling ice cream from one of those portable booths in New York City. I don’t know whether I can publish it without having gotten the man’s permission, and if I blur his face it would wreck the photo.
Hi! No I don’t, permission is not needed for street photography and asking for permission would defeat the point. Check out Sean Tucker’s video on it, it’s really good :)
@@timjamiesonphotos Thanks so much for your reply and for the pointer to a video for info. I’ve worried about this but didn’t see how it could possibly be practical!
Do you find yourself using different focal lenses at night?
Usually a longer focal length like 50mm or 76mm (full frame equivalent)
@@timjamiesonphotos any idea what leads you to that? I am sorta an 35mm guy but at night I also convert to 50 or 85mm
I went out to take photos for my first time and I didn’t take any… I didn’t find anything I liked 😢 like ughhhh I took no photos
That’s ok! Happens to us all, all the time. The most important thing is just going out with your camera, the more you do the, the more chance you have of getting some shots you like :)
I would take some photos anyway, just to see if they came out (like if there was enough light,etc., or to fiddle with camera settings). You can always trash the photos later. There have also been a lot of times when I’ve discovered pieces of a photo that I didn’t really notice when I took the shot, but ended up really liking in a crop. Just a thought. At least that way I don’t have to come home with nothing.
Tip number one move out of the dead end country town.
That sure helps
If it is night then artificial light is the only option 🤷♂
Yes that’s right