In the past, landscape photography largely ended when the last light of dusk faded from the sky. Today its only beginning. The latest digital cameras have made it easy to create images of the landscape at night that film and early digital photographers could only dream of. Equipped with off-the-shelf cameras, more and more photographers are venturing into the night, far beyond the comforting glow of city lights, and returning with spectacular images of places both familiar and unknown that are unlike anything seen before. Dusk to Dawn: A Guide to Landscape Photography at Night is your guide to this new photographic world. In it, photographer Glenn Randallauthor of the bestselling The Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photographyteaches you how to plan, shoot, and process professional-quality images of the Milky Way, the aurora, lunar eclipses, meteor showers, star trails, and landscapes lit solely by moonlight. Throughout the book, Randall emphasizes ways to integrate beautiful depictions of the night sky with equally compelling renditions of the land below to create complete landscape images that evoke a sense of placeand a sense of wonder. Equipped with the knowledge in this book, readers will be prepared to create their own nocturnal masterpieces.
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| Foreword |
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| Introduction |
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| 1 Preparing for Night Photography |
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| 2 Tools for Night Photography |
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Lenses for Night Photography |
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Accessories for Night Photography |
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| 3 Essential Skills for Night Photography |
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Holding Detail in the Land |
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| 4 Planning a Milky Way Shoot |
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Planning a Shoot of the Milky Way Over Longs Peak |
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Planning Milky Way Panoramas |
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| 5 Shooting the Milky Way |
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Shooting the Milky Way in a Single Frame |
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Shooting Milky Way Panoramas |
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| 6 Processing Night Landscapes |
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The Color of the Night Sky |
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Editing Images Taken on a Moonless Night |
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Combining Two Images in Photoshop |
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Selecting Complex Shapes in Night Images |
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Brightening the Sky and Darkening the Land Near the Horizon |
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Processing Night Panoramas |
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| 7 Advanced Techniques for Night Landscapes |
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Reducing Noise with Stack Mode>Median |
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Using Star-Tracking Camera Mounts |
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| 8 Photographing Star Trails |
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Blending the Images to Create the Star Trails |
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| 9 Shooting the Aurora |
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Composing Photographs of the Aurora |
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Processing Photographs of the Aurora |
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| 10 Photographing Meteor Showers |
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Photographing Meteor Showers |
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Shooting and Processing an Image of the Geminid Meteor Shower |
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| 11 Photographing Lunar Eclipses |
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Assembling a Composite Image of a Lunar Eclipse |
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| 12 Photographing Moonlit Landscapes |
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Exposure for Moonlit Landscapes |
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Processing Moonlit Landscapes |
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Since 1979, Glenn Randall has combined his love of the wilderness with his passion for photography to create stunning landscape images. His intimate knowledge of atmospheric optics, weather conditions, and the landscapes he photographs allows him to find an intersection between magical light and stunning subject matter, which results in exceptional images.
Glenn's work has been included in calendars for Audubon, Avalanche, Barnes & Noble, Brown Trout, Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, and Runner's World. His images have been published in Audubon, GEO, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, SKI, Los Angeles Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, New York Times Magazine, and many others. His photographs have also been used by book publishers and corporate clients. At age 56, he has accumulated nearly 1,200 photo credits, including 73 covers, and sold over 10,000 prints.
Glenn has authored 200 magazine articles and nine books, including two books of landscape photographs: Rocky Mountain National Park Impressions and Colorado Wild & Beautiful, both published by Farcountry Press. He recently completed a seven-year project called Sunrise from the Summit, in which he shot the sunrise (and occasionally the sunset) from the summit of all fifty-four Colorado Fourteeners (peaks over 14,000 feet).
