Night photography: technique, motifs & practice

This video starts with an overview of this training course. You will also find out what you can expect in the next three chapters.

From personal experience, Marko can tell you some of the pros and cons of night photography and what you can expect.

This part will give you an insight into which camera equipment, which lens and tripod, which power bank and batteries Marko uses in this video training. He explains why exactly these will be used here.

In this section, Marko gives you an overview of the lighting equipment he uses in this training course. Flashes, LED panels, flashlights and other tools are used here.

Before the training starts, Marko gives you lots of different quick tips. These are all about night photography.

In this video, Marko explains how you can create meaningful photos at night without any aids, using only the available light. He also briefly discusses the topic of long exposure.

In this part, you can see which camera functions can help you to take a sharp and low-noise photo at night if you don't have a tripod to hand. Marko also shows you which Blender and ISO he sets to achieve the desired result. Posture can also play an important role here.

Marko explains step by step how exposure bracketing works, how it is set in the camera and how it is used at the end. The white balance in the camera in combination with the color mood "on location" produce an individual result. Marko explains what you should pay attention to here.

This section will show you that it can be advantageous to work with a graduated filter, what it is used for and why. Of course, the camera settings and camera alignment are just as important to ensure that the preparations and settings for a panorama shot pay off in the end.

In this video, Marko explains what the blue hour is, what you should bear in mind and how you can prepare for it. You'll also learn how to optimize the image using a graduated filter and capture a brilliant result.

In this training section, Marko will explain to you why ISO is so important for night shots, what you should pay attention to when making the settings and what the problems and difficulties can be with panoramic shots of this kind. Here you can see for yourself how you can avoid them.

There are a few important factors that play a role in creating brilliant bokehs in portrait backgrounds. Marko will explain these in more detail here. See what you can expect here.

Photographing at night with available light is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Join Marko on his search for useful light and find out what he looks for.

Shop windows are not only wonderful when it comes to displaying. They are also ideal for impressively illuminating models at night.

Most people consider a slow shutter speed in combination with portrait photography to be the wrong setting. Nevertheless, Marko shows you here how you can work creatively with it.

Flashes do not always have to be mounted on the camera. As soon as these are positioned further away from the camera, completely new methods can open up, with which you can let off steam creatively. Here, Marko demonstrates how he combines artificial light with existing light.

Painting with light in the dark offers many creative possibilities. In this part, Marko will show you how he uses his cell phone light to place a glowing "non-human" on a bench and photograph it.

In this part of the training, you will see Marko illuminating a large barn in a field in the deepest darkness, which cannot be seen with the naked eye. He uses a standard flashlight as an aid to illuminate the area.

Using an LED panel with individually adjustable colors, Marko will illuminate a barn in full color. He also combines two different colors in a single shot.

Shooting passing cars can often be boring, especially as it's difficult to get a sharp shot. Marko will show you how he captures just the trails of light from the traffic with a long exposure.

Here Marko shows how he illuminates a vehicle with the help of clip-on flashes. He will use color foils to add more sophistication.

Marko shows you how he combines three different exposure brackets into one HDR in Lightroom in a very simple and easy way. He also shows you how to straighten many different lines at the touch of a button.

To get started, Marko will show his approach to developing a portrait in Lightroom. In the second step, he concentrates only on the image look, which he creates using only a gradation curve.

For many people, noise in an image can be a disruptive factor or a stylistic device. Marko shows you how to remove slight noise in the depths of an image using two variations.

The combination of several images will be the focus of this video. Here Marko uses several layers in Photoshop and masks for an image montage.

Marko uses a fill method in Photoshop to merge several images together. The advantage of this is that you can manually determine how many and which light trails are visible in an image.

In this video, Marko says goodbye personally and shows you his personal favorite motifs from this training, which have been slightly reworked.