ANONIMO - 60 Examples of Night Photography

60 Beautiful Examples Of Night PhotographyNovember 9th, 2008 in Inspiration |

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By Andrew Gibson and

Smashing Editorial Team

Low light levels make night

photography a challenging yet

rewarding subject. The best

results require specialized

equipment, like SLR cameras,

tripods, cable releases and

flashguns. After sunset, the

everyday world is magically

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transformed, and city buildings,

fireworks, thunderstorms and

the northern lights all become

popular subjects.

We present 60 amazing

examples of night

photography, photos, created

by some hard-working and

dedicated photographers. Take

a look at their websites and

portfolios, and youll find some

links to how-to articles about

night photography at the bottom

of the post.

You may want to take a look at

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Speed

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Beautiful

Motion

Blur

Photos

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Beautiful

Macro

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Shots

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Brilliant

Examples

Of

Rain

Photography



l 50

Stunning

Underwater

Photos

l Smoke

Photography

and

Smoke

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In the CityArtificial light transforms the

urban landscape into a place of

magic and mystery.

Bob West

Jim Downie



Daniel Cheong



nonkelduvel

kayess2008



Roger E



Jose Maria Cuellar

Jose Maria Cuellar



Matt Reinbold



Loveless Ramblings and

Other Cynical Musings



Rob



Bastian Groove



h o t t



Alcove



Janek Skarzynski



Bob Long Jr



Victor Shilo



Kirk Marshall

Kirk Marshall



Jim Downie



Alice Day



John Mueller

Bob Long Jr



Nada Stankova



Daniel Cheong

Earth at Night



LandscapesLandscape photographers love

the magical light of sunset and

twilight. With long shutter

speeds and a steady tripod its

even possible to photograph the

landscape lit by nothing but

moonlight.

Toby Keller



Oliver Wu

Terri Beitzel



_oriana.italy_

Gerrit Wenz



Ms vision

Kevin McNeal



Kevin McNeal

Mac_Raw



Kevin McNeal



Adam Blenford



Brian Auer

Wes Thomas



John Mueller

Daniel Cheong



Toby Keller

Toby Keller



Bob West

Bob West



Northern LightsThe northern lights are a

popular subject for

photographers living in the

extreme north of Canada,

Alaska and Europe.

rvar Atli orgeirsson




Max Waugh

Max Waugh



StormsDramatic thunderstorms are

captured using slow shutter

speeds.

Nigel Midwinter



Jose Maria Cuellar



Geoff Coleman

Geoff Coleman



Christophe Paquignon

Heavenly BodiesIts even possible to photograph

the stars and the moon with the

right equipment.

Matthas sgeirsson



Geoff Coleman



Neil Creek



FireworksAnother popular subject for

night photographers.

Matthas sgeirsson



Kirk Marshall



Troy PaivaTroy Paiva specializes in night

photography and light-painting

techniques. He explores

Americas abandoned urban

landscapes in his latest book

Night Vision: The Art of

Urban Exploration.

Troy Paiva



Troy Paiva



Anthony JamesAnthony James has a passion

for night photography. Over the

years, he has amassed a unique

collection of photographic

images covering a variety of

subjects from different parts of

Asia, Europe and Australia.

For me the joy of photography

comes from the ability to



capture and record a unique

slice of space and time that may

otherwise be lost forever. A

moment perhaps only witnessed

by an individual yet shared with

the rest of us, albeit imbued

with a unique perspective - a

window on our world that may

remain forever etched into our

consciousness.

Anthony James



Anthony James

Anthony James



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Interview

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Troy

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Troy

Paiva

is a

night

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expert

and

author

of the

book

Night

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The

Art of

Urban

Exploration.

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Night

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Technique

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com -

Night

Photography

Step

by



Step

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Sonata

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Landscape

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Light

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Full

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A

night

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by

article

by

Bruce

B.

Clendenning.

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Nocturnes

-

Night

photography

workshops,

exhibits

and

resources

Lots of

interesting

night

photography

articles

in the

resources

page.

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Night

Photographers



l After

Dark:

Night

Photography

Flickr

pool

Related postsYou may want to take a look at

the following related posts:

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Of

Rain

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l 50

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Underwater

Photos



l Smoke

Photography

and

Smoke

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About the author

Andrew Gibson is a

photographer and writer. He

runs the Magical Places Fine

Art Online Photography

Magazine.

l Published in

Inspiration,

November 9th, 2008

l Tags: inspiration,

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1.

Ricky.nu

(November 9th,

2008, 3:07 pm)

I love the car-

picture! Nice

collection!

2.

Mehow.se

(November 9th,

2008, 3:10 pm)

Hot collection! I love

most of this pics!

3.

Gianni (November

9th, 2008, 3:30

pm)

Amazing!



I live outside of

Toronto, Canada, and

I remember last year I

went out and could

see the Aurora

Borealis (Northern

Lights) and I was

amazed and had NO

photography

equipment at all; not

even a camera

phone! bah!

4.

Nick (November

9th, 2008, 3:42

pm)

Beautiful pictures. Ive

yet to master night

shots.

5.

Couchart

(November 9th,

2008, 3:47 pm)

You missed one!

Link [seenew.

deviantart.com]. The

ones mentioned are



also really good.

6.

Marc Dandoy

(November 9th,

2008, 3:53 pm)

The first one is

absolutely beautiful.

7.

chovy (November

9th, 2008, 4:03

pm)

Very cool. Storms are

beautiful, as are the

night pics.

8.

AshasJewelry

(November 9th,

2008, 4:41 pm)

My favorite is

Rambling Love, but



they all are amazing!

9.

sandrups

(November 9th,

2008, 5:30 pm)

ESPECTACULAR!!

10.

Erik Teichmann

(November 9th,

2008, 5:35 pm)

These remind me of a

friend of mines work.

Hes from South

Africa and takes all

sorts of rad night

photography - Link

[rosshillier.my-

expressions.com]

11.

Rachel (November

9th, 2008, 5:43

pm)



Thank you for posting

these stunning

photos. :)

12.

AthenaEmily

(November 9th,

2008, 6:07 pm)

amazing shots!!!!!!

thanks!!

glad to see some

taken in Hong Kong!

my home city


2008, 6:37 pm)

egh no insult, just

keepin it real. Im not

to impressed by all

the copied

photography lists that

appear as syndicated

content everywhere.

15.

jadenorven

(November 9th,

2008, 7:13 pm)

@mikemike

egh no insult, but

thats only you

16.

Tom Ross

(November 9th,

2008, 7:39 pm)

Absolutely fantastic

collection!

17.



samhyd

(November 9th,

2008, 8:27 pm)

I wonder..

no words

Thanks for this

spectacular collection,

18.

Alexandre

(November 9th,

2008, 8:47 pm)

Link [www.flickr.com]

19.

Chris Luckhardt

(November 9th,

2008, 8:49 pm)

I have a few night

shots of my own Id

like to share:

Link [flickr.com]



Link [flickr.com]

Link [flickr.com]

Link [flickr.com]

Link [flickr.com]

Link [flickr.com]

Link [flickr.com]

20.

Muhammad

Ahmad (November

9th, 2008, 8:56

pm)

love the collection

21.

Wallace Goh

(November 9th,

2008, 9:32 pm)

Thanks for all nice

graphics.It was cool

and nice collection.

22.

dev(Www.iHaCK.

ASIA) (November



9th, 2008, 9:57

pm)

Really beautiful

especially the earh at

night

Link [Www.iHaCK.

ASIA]

23.

Bobby (November

9th, 2008, 10:15

pm)

Great pics until you

click on them and

they take you to flickr.

Nothing more iritating

than having to click

on it again to get a

larger view. Couldnt

you have hosted

these on your own

server or direct link to

the larger version on

flickr?

24.

srinivas

(November 9th,



2008, 10:22 pm)

good pics

25.

Josh (November

9th, 2008, 10:36

pm)

@Bobby:

The Flickr license

requires one to point

directly (and only) to

the Flickr photo page

when hot-linking for

compilations such as

this.

26.

Vu Duy Toan

(November 9th,

2008, 10:46 pm)

beautiful!

27.

ptarmigan



(November 9th,

2008, 10:49 pm)

nice collection, I

suggest you take a

look at the Landscape

and Northern lights

pictures of Romko, a

guy from Alaska:

Link [romko-kr.

livejournal.com]

28.

Andris (November

9th, 2008, 11:28

pm)

Nice collection. Love

the ALTA VISTA.

29.

Klaas van

Wachteren

(November 9th,

2008, 11:42 pm)



Very collection. There

are some talents out

there.

Good start into the

new week.

Stay tuned . . .

Link [www.vinergy.

org]

30.

Mjuboy (November

9th, 2008, 11:55

pm)

Great collection of

beautiful photographs!

31.

WJ (November

9th, 2008, 11:55

pm)

thats good!

32.

Hemlata

(November 10th,



2008, 12:57 am)

great collections..

beautiful images

33.

ali (November

10th, 2008, 1:31

am)

very very well!

i love smashing

34.

Stijn (November

10th, 2008, 1:41

am)

I love the Alcove

picture, but I doubt

that it is a night

picture, if you look at

the sky you can see

that its the sun en the

sky is blue.

I love the way that

person processed it!

great collection!



35.

Arren (November

10th, 2008, 2:17

am)

Absolutely

sensational, really

beautiful work

36.

Olafur (November

10th, 2008, 2:51

am)

Nice!! Really inspiring.

37.

imran (November

10th, 2008, 3:27

am)

beautiful.

38.



Mehmet Ali

(November 10th,

2008, 3:40 am)

awesome

39.

Leo (November

10th, 2008, 4:51

am)

Absolutely fantastic

40.

Leo (November

10th, 2008, 4:52

am)

Reminds me how an

incredible place the

world can be

41.

drakul (November


60 Beautiful Examples Of Night Photography | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine10th, 2008, 4:56

am)

The ilumination of the

eiffel tower at night is

copyrighted, so you

should be careful with

those pics:

As you can read in

Link [www.tour-eiffel.

fr], There are no

restrictions on

publishing a picture of

the Tower by day.

Photos taken at night

when the lights are

aglow are subjected

to copyright laws, and

fees for the right to

publish must be paid

to the SETE

42.

Rune Gisladottir

(November 10th,

2008, 4:58 am)

Dear Smashing

Pls take another look

at the pictures you

present. A quite lot

were not shot at night

and a very few are

not photography at all



but artwork. Some of

the setting a night

scene from a bright

daylight picture

photos are not done

very well. Look at the

shadows.

In Janeks night photo

only f/32 keeps us

from beeing

suntanned :)

43.

Helen Tran

(November 10th,

2008, 6:19 am)

Unfortunately I have

to echo what Rune

had posted above

me, some of these

were not shot at night

at all. Some of the

photos are just

terribly done

technically - blurry,

grainy and theres no

clear purposeful

intent. There are

many night

photographers that

are much better at

their craft, perhaps

you should have

looked just a little bit

harder.



MSOnWired

(November 10th,

2008, 6:58 am)

Love the Alcove

photo. Great

composition and color.

45.

Anjhero

(November 10th,

2008, 7:06 am)

Simply awesome

fotographs!!!

46.

Corey (November

10th, 2008, 8:59

am)

This kid has some

great night photos.


47.



SiGa (November

10th, 2008, 9:21

am)

Always amazed by

your collections!

48.

Lm (November

10th, 2008, 9:40

am)

Heres one of mine !

Link [www.

monsieurlam.com]

49.

canute (November

10th, 2008, 10:29

am)

i would really like to

add the photography

of Will Govus

his night photos are

amazing




50.

Phill (November

10th, 2008, 11:33

am)

Wooow!

51.

John (November

10th, 2008, 12:15

pm)

Does anyone know

who is credited for the

Alcove photo? I

looked at some of his/

her other work, and it

is amazing. I want

some prints!

52.

W3MasteR

(November 10th,

2008, 3:12 pm)



oh really beautiful

night photos

53.

Antonio Alday

(November 10th,

2008, 5:46 pm)

Very god artist

Felicidades

54.

Saturation

(November 10th,

2008, 11:16 pm)

Very nice work, but

as a whole it tends to

look like an exercise

in cranking the

saturation up to 11.

55.

Max B. (November

11th, 2008, 12:26


60 Beautiful Examples Of Night Photography | Inspiration | Smashing Magazineam)

Pretty neat!

I agree to Stijn

though

the Alcove picture is

not a night shot!

edit: I did have a look

at Alcoves photos

most of them are

clearly PS edited. The

photo in this

collection also looked

way to good though

i dont mind a slight

work over, i reckon

his shots show hes

good at PS rather

than at photography!

56.

ardhian.satrya

(November 11th,

2008, 12:56 am)

the alcove picture is

not night

photography, its not

supposed to be

included since the

post is about night

photography although

its nice. Great post

anyway, some of the

photos are really



stunning and inspiring.

57.

Praval Singh

(November 11th,

2008, 1:04 am)

Arent they highly

photoshoped?

58.

Tom (November

11th, 2008, 2:43

am)

that was my question

too, cant believe this

all was done without

using photoshop

i mean some pictures

made me speachless

and would see

hanging on my wall.

really inspiring post

sm, thanks alot

59.

Andoni G I

(November 11th,



2008, 3:21 am)

Photo at !0:00 p.m







60.

Oliver Wu

(November 11th,

2008, 6:33 am)

Thanks Andrew and

Smashing Editorial

Team. I am really

honored to see my

photo (Niagara Falls

at Night) being

featured here (twice).

Cheers!!!

See more of my

photos here:


61.



Xzdead

(November 11th,

2008, 7:16 am)

Very nice Pictures, I

love them but I have

to say they are so.

unreal. I see a lot of

PS

62.

Technologix

(November 11th,

2008, 4:26 pm)

Thank you a lot !!

63.

Thomas

(November 11th,

2008, 4:53 pm)

5/10 SM

Some very nice pics

in here. But also

some VERY



photoshop heavy

pics, and also a lot of

the pics have a very

amateur quality to

them imho. The ones

that did stand out to

me are very beautiful.

64.

BeantownDesign.

com (November

11th, 2008, 5:11

pm)

WoW! So many new

desktop pics!

65.

Jumping Dog

Design (November

11th, 2008, 9:36

pm)

Lovely, thanks for the

photos.

66.


60 Beautiful Examples Of Night Photography | Inspiration | Smashing MagazineWayfaring

Wanderer

(November 12th,

2008, 6:30 am)

There are some

amazing photos in

there! Very

inspirational :)

WW

Link [www.

wayfaringwanderer.

com]

67.

creative279

(November 12th,

2008, 11:11 am)

Great photography.

Good work keep it up


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