Some of you have asked some interesting questions about night photography. Here’s your answers to your darkest questions. What is light painting? Light painting is used in several different ways. However, both use long exposures. One way is to shine a handheld light directly into the lens and draw things.
How many images does it take to tell a story? For a lunar eclipse, I find that seven is the minimum, unless you are only sharing the blood moon. Here’s my Beaver Moon November 2022 version of the truncated full lunar eclipse. Lunar eclipse captures I made captures from around
Many of you are probably wondering how I photographed this image. My friends have all asked me, several of them photographers. The simple answer–this isn’t one image. It is two images. In one image I exposed and focused for the moon. In the other image I exposed for everything else.
