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"No other discipline so readily advances Art's longest and most fervent hope, attainment of a Fourth Dimension, as Night Photography. Its images flow free in timelessness."

Everything you always wanted to know about Night Photography (NPy) but were afraid to ask! Compiled here (and in the above links) you will find tips and tricks to better Night Photography (by our illustrious members), interviews with noted night photographers, books that showcase the best done in this field, articles that appeared in national and local publications, links to interesting sites, and all about the moon and its phases.

• Basic Night Photography Information by Tim Baskerville
• What to Pack by Lance Keimig
• What to Leave Out by Tim Baskerville
• Choosing your Location and Safety Concerns by Lance Keimig
• Reflections on the Torch in the Night by Edward Abbey
• NPy - Technique - Troy Paiva's updated info (Digital Tips!)
• Photography Equipment and Darkroom techniques by Steve Harper
• The Ghost Photographer of Bateman, Saskatchewan by Larrie Thomson
• Exposures for Moonlight Photography by Marcus Kazmierczak
• The Curious Incident of the Photographer in the Nighttime by David Callen
• Tips for Night Photography by Marcus Kazmierczak
• Re: NPy Equipment by John Perkinson
• Common Obstacles in Night Photography by Sean McHugh
• Exercise in Night Photography by John D. Moore
• Landscape Imaging by the Light of the Full Moon by Bruce Clendenning
• What Color, the Night? from the Blog of Ken Wronkiewicz
• Words, sort of about . . . Night Photography Blog by Joe Reifer
• Night Photography Blog by night-owl about town, Andy Frazer
• Painting with Light by Lorran Meares
• Night and Low-Light Photography Tutorial from Blacks of Canada
• Sky Photography Tips Dennis Mammana's excellent how-to pages
• Gabriel Biderman's blog on NPy and FAP (fine art photography)
• Lunar Light Beauty of the Night Sky, from MetropolisMag.com
• Excellent resource guide re: Saving Dark Skies from SkyandTelescope.com
• The Urban Astronomer Blog offering articles/insight into the night sky
  

Articles

• Review - Michael Kenna's NightWork at Friends of Photography by Tim Baskerville
  (PHOTO METRO - the unpublished "last" Issue, 2001)
  
• A History of Night Photography by Lance Keimig
• Night Light Photography by Paul Raedeke
  (PHOTO METRO - Night Photography Issue, March 1983)
• Dark Ventures, A Study of Black-and-White Night Photography
  by Steve Harper
• PageMaster: The Nocturnes "People in Technology" feature
  (San Francisco Chronicle, October 8, 1998)
• Art in its Natural Habitat Datebook excerpt, by Jesse Hamlin, with Tim Baskerville
  (San Francisco Chronicle, September 28, 2003)
• Shooting the Moon: the tradition and technology of NPy by Lance Keimig
  (Architecture Boston magazine, July-August 2007 issue)
• NPy with the View Camera by Tom Paiva
  (View Camera magazine, May-June 2007 issue)
  

Interviews

• Photographer Does His Best Work in the Dark
  Interview with Tim Baskerville by Laura McInstry, November 1991
• On the Shoulders of Giants
  Interview with Michael Kenna by Tim Baskerville
• The Photo Metro Interview with Steve Harper
  by Paul Raedeke, March 1983
• ViewCamera Interview with Richard Misrach (re: the language of night)
  by John Paul Caponigro, Sept/Oct 1998

Introductions, Forewords

• Foreword to Matthew Lennert's Answer Yourself by Tim Baskerville
• Introduction to Michael Kenna's Night Work by Tim Baskerville

Audio / Video

• Night of the Living Nocturnes [sic] a film by alum Andy Frazer
  
• "My first YouTube Video" Time Lapse NPy by Dan Heller, July 2007
• "Another Time Lapse movie" by Dan Heller, July 2007
• "Photography and its Future" interview with Dan Heller, KQED radio August 2007
• ProArts artist talk on NPY with Alum John Vias
• Lost on Interstate 80 near Winnemucca Troy Paiva interviewed on ArtLand, Brit TV
• "Shadows and light across this land" Minnesota Public Radio interview w/Chris Faust
  

Letters to the Editor

• To Architecture Boston Magazine by Tim Baskerville, August 2007