Light & Composition Magazine » Night Photography http://www.lightandcomposition.com Towards the true essence of photography Thu, 17 May 2012 12:10:32 +0000 en hourly 1 Photo of the Day | May 05 | New York City by Night, by Bobi Dojcinovski http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-may-05-new-york-city-by-night-by-bobi-dojcinovski/ http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-may-05-new-york-city-by-night-by-bobi-dojcinovski/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 14:36:42 +0000 L&C Team http://www.lightandcomposition.com/?p=8615 Photo of the Day - May 05
This is one of my favorite photos lately. Its midtown Manhattan, and the shining part is Times Square. I took this shot from Weehawken, New Jersey.

Technical Info: Canon 60D | Exposure f/5.6 @ 4sec | ISO 100 | Focal Length 50mm
Title of the photograph: New York City by Night
Photo of the Day Award Category: Night Photography
Photograph Location: Weehawken, New Jersey | United States

Photographer: Bobi Dojcinovski (New York City, New York, USA)
Bobi Dojcinovski, born in Macedonia/Europe, currently living in New York City is a self-taught photographer who never leaves his home without his camera. He shoots what he likes and what interest him. In the past 2 years inspired by “The City” he started shooting the New York street scene. He simply devoted himself to capturing everyday life in the city and created a project named 365 New York City where every day he is posting 1 photo on his Facebook project page.
Portfolio: http://www.dojcinovski.com
500px: http://500px.com/bdojcinovski
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/365NewYorkCity
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/dborislav
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/bdojcinovski/

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This is taken by a compact camera on manual. It was a beautiful August night in Istanbul with full moon at a lucky spot to take pictures. Because I didn’t expect to take any pictures that night, I only had my little compact camera, which I carry around all the time. Later I decided to convert that into black and white as its suited much better.

Technical Info: Nikon E4300 | Exposure 1sec at f/2.9 | ISO 100
Title of the photograph: Istanbul by Night
Photo of the Day Award Category: Night Photography
Photograph Location: Istanbul | Turkey
Photographer: Orhan Aksel (Istanbul, Turkey)
Aksel was born in 1961. He is an Industrial and Systems engineer, graduated from University of Florida in ’86 and since then the founder and owner of a high-tech company in Istanbul. He Has been a passionate photography amateur since he was 12, grew up in darkrooms. But recently he decided to step up his photography, hoping that one day he can earn money through this hobby to donate for the education of the needy children of the world. It is still a hobby to him, but just became a philanthropic one. Eventually he wants to shift his carrier more to this direction.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/59093584@N00/

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This photograph is of a beautiful love Monument which is in Agra (India). It’s the night view of Tajmahal, which looks lovely as the sky goes dark, and the monument is getting more beautiful. When I was taking this picture, I just thought how the Great Taj will look when it is taken from a wide angle, and the dark blue sky will put more effect on it or not . So here is my Imagination which I put it in front of you.

Technical Info: Sony DSC-T20 | ISO 100 | Focal length 19mm | Exposure 1/100sec at f/7.1
Title of the photograph: Taj Mahal Night
Photo of the Day Award Category: Night Photography
Photograph Location: Agra | India
Photographer: Karin Eibenberger ( Waidhofen, Austria / Baltimore, MD, USA )
Born on 8th October 1987, Ankush Kochhar loves nature a lot. He was not thinking to hold a camera some day and start clicking. However he can’t forgot May 2008 when he picked his camera (Sony DSC-T20). It was the first day for his camera, but the last day of final exam of his graduation. That day he shot almost 200 shots for more than 3 hours. From that day he started getting deeply into photography. He started it as a hobby slowly, and slowly changed into passion. Now he wants to take it as his passionate career. He is a keen learner, who is always ready to learn from others. Now-a-days he goes to different places, and capture what his eyes see, he tries to capture that moments in his Nikon D3100. He loves to click from different perspectives He doesn’t carry lot of equipment, and always try to make it simple.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ankushkochhar1987

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Taking images in moonlight is one of my passions. Unbelievable how well this works with modern digital cameras. I knew the fullmoon would rise in the east, letting the fog on the pond glow in a warm tone. Actually moon light has a similar quality as sunlight, it has almost the same color temperature. The biggest difference is that it has only 11% of the luminocity. With a headlight I painted some structure on the grass in the foreground.

Technical Info: Canon EOS 1Ds III | Zeiss Distagon 2.8/21mm PC | Exposure: 692sec @ f/4 | ISO: 100
Title of the photograph: Moonrise
Photo of the Day Award Category: Night Photography
Photograph Location: Styria | Austria
Photographer: Rainer Mirau (Baden, Austria)
Rainer Mirau was born in 1976 in Vienna and have lived since his early childhood in Baden, an idyllic small town on the edge of the Vienna Forest. In his youth, he often travelled with a backpack and a tent. Now, he is often on the road in his camping van in the Alps and in Northern Europe.
His interest in landscape photography was awakened by first trips to Scandinavia. With his father‘s Olympus OM-1 and through studying various books by photographers such as Andreas Feininger, Ansel Adams or Fritz Pölking, he learned the rules of photography time after time. In 2005, he rediscovered his passion for photography and have pursued it since then with a lot of energy and joy.
Spending time in natural surroundings regularly is not just recreation and inspiration for Rainer Mirau, but is a necessity in order to lead a balanced life. For him, nature photography is the ideal occupation, as he can thus live out his creativity and grapple with technology (that whole big toy!) and in the process, still experience beautiful moments in nature as well.
Numerous publications and successes in international competitions motivates him to continue on his path as a photographer.
Website: www.silent-moment.com
Google+: http://plus.google.com/105675627112568067224/posts
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Rainer.Mirau

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This gritty urban night soccer scene comes to you from Ipanema Beach in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The iconic peak of Pedra de Gavea rises in the background and the city lights of Favela da Rocinha (South America’s largest shanty town/slum) climb impossibly up the side of the mountain. I camped out on this beach for a few hours either side sunset to try to capture some of the intense atmosphere that this place just emanates.

Technical Info: Canon 5D Mark II | Canon 70-200mm f2.8L IS USM lens | Exposure: 1/200sec @ f/2.8 | ISO 4000.
Title of the photograph: Ipanema Night Soccer
Photo of the Day Award Category: Night Photography
Photograph Location: Rio de Janeiro | Brazil
Photographer: Cameron James Cope (Melbourne, Australia.)
Cam Cope is an Australian emerging photographic artist dedicated to travel photography and producing personal and collaborative projects with focused themes of colonial history, indigenous culture and the environment. His travel work intends to inspire a sense of awe for the world around us and his personal projects intend to contribute to public debate and engineer platforms for people to tell their own stories.
Website: http://www.camcope.com
Blog: http://camcope.wordpress.com
Facebook: http://http://www.facebook.com/pages/CAM-COPE-Photography/359647440394

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Balloon Festival is organized where large number of people come to witness the event. Last year after the dusk, visitors were allowed to enter the place where Balloons were kept. It gave an opportunity to get up close with them.

Technical Info: Nikon D700 | 20-35Nikkor | f/4 at 1/800sec | ISO 1250
Title of the photograph: Color of Balloon Festival
Photo of the Day Award Category: Night Photography
Photograph Location: Plano, Texas | United States
Photographer: Anindya Chakraborty (Kolkata, India)
Anindya Chakraborty is a self taught photographer from Kolkata. He is a software engineer by profession, who started photography in 2006. He is gravitating towards documentary photography, and during his stay in United States, did a series on Bodie Ghost Town, New Orleans, broken American Dreams and finally Last few months. Some of his work was published in Picsean Travel Magazine and National Geographic..
Portfolio: http://anindya.smugmug.com

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Man is the only creature who dares to light the fire and live with it. But there are some who not only earn their livelihood, they even play with it. In this photography I try to capture the life of such people. When the night emerge the day, it become their stage to play, they light the fire in the air, its the fire of their soul.

Technical Info: Canon EOS 550D | Exposure 1/2500 sec at f/2.2 | ISO 800 | Focal length 50mm
Title of the photograph: Fire of Soul
Photo of the Day Award Category: Night Photography
Photograph Location: Dhaka | Bangladesh
Photographer: Rizwan Hasan (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Rizwan Hasan is a passionate photographer who took photography seriously in 2010. His primary interest is in lifestyle and street photography. He likes to shoot at night.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/riz_wan/

]]> http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-november-02-fire-of-soul-by-rizwan-hasan/feed/ 0 Photo of the Day | October 13 | Whizzing Round, by Kurien Koshy Yohannan http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-october-13-whizzing-round-by-kurien-koshy-yohannan/ http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-october-13-whizzing-round-by-kurien-koshy-yohannan/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:56:47 +0000 L&C Team http://www.lightandcomposition.com/?p=6934 Photo of the Day - October 13
Once in a year, the festive spirit is palpable in the air and the Edinburgh City Center is transformed into a winter wonderland. Food markets, holly, and yes the Ferris Wheel that attracts many a folk. Was really glad I was able to capture this long exposure shot of the Ferris Wheel as it took its passengers on a joy ride!

Technical Info: Canon EOS 50D | Exposure: 4sec | Aperture: f/22 | ISO: 2000 | Focal Length: 28mm
Title of the photograph: Whizzing Round
Photo of the Day Award Category: Night Photography
Photograph Location: Edinburgh | Scotland
Photographer: Kurien Koshy Yohannan (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Photography started off as a hobby for Kurien Koshy Yohannan but now it plays a major role in his life – so much so that he plans to slowly start making a living from it. Koshy believes there is so much beauty around us that can be captured; nature is full of beauty waiting for us to capture it, if we have the eye and receptiveness for it. Koshy intends to capture this beauty through his camera lens for all to enjoy and behold. Through his photography he would like people to appreciate the world we live in – the animal and plant life that coexist with us as well as the people and cultures that surround us – and hopes that it may provide a renewed enthusiasm for people to safeguard the beautiful planet that we call Home.
Website: http://igallopfree.com
Portfolio: http://www.behance.net/bsphotography/frame
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackstallionphotography
Twitter: http://twitter.com/stalliontweet
Facebook: http://facebook.com/BlackStallionPhotography

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I took this image at 7 pm after Azan of Maghrib, on 28th Ramadan to capture the blue hour. Use the tripod to avoid the shake. Use 30 second exposure and F22 to avoid the burns.

Technical Info: Nikon D700 | Sigma 12-24 mm | Exposure 30 Seconds at f/22 | Tripod + Remote | RAW Image
Title of the Photograph: On 28th Ramadan
Photo of the Day Award Category: Night Photography
Photograph Location: Faisal Masjid,Islamabad, Pakistan
Photographer: Muhammad Azhar Hafeez (Islamabad, Pakistan)
Muhammad Azhar Hafeez born in 10 August , 1971 Phirala , Faisalabad, Pakistan. He studied Bachelors in Graphic Design/Photography 1993 from National College of Arts Lahore Pakistan. Currently he is working as Senior Computer Graphic Designer in IT Department, Pakistan Television Corporation Islamabad. 22 years ago, Azhar started photography as he like shoot and analyze people. Most of his photographs are with his own ideas. He has an intuitive feel for world he inhabits and I am convinced that this must be strongest when he squints through the lens. He believes, one has to be honest with oneself first and then the picture will be good. One must feel first. Sometimes when he clicks the camera there is another click in his heart, and sometimes he knows the picture will be horrible”. Hs is working continuously to stretch himself and ambiance change. Azhar’s photographs are characteristically untitled. He also believes, “a picture or a work of art needs not to be categorized”. He approached photography as an art from the beginning. There are no photography schools in Pakistan, specialized in teaching all kinds of photography. Moreover, in Pakistan there are no museums for art photography, even the art museums don’t show photography artwork. Being an Art Photographer Azhar has to work for commercial to enrich my bread & butter. He traveled throughout Pakistan for his photography. He works as a free-lance photographer, graphic designer, Director and Teacher. He loves to be free in his work to do what he is interested in. He loves to learn new things always, things related to art, to life itself. Azhar’s 4th solo show is open on 6th of September 2011 in nomad art gallery Islamabad, Pakistan.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/azharhafeez
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001548214861

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The Palace of Mysore is a palace situated in the city of Mysore in southern India. It is the official residence of the Wodeyars – the erstwhile royal family of Mysore, and also houses two durbar halls (ceremonial meeting hall of the royal court). This photograph was taken on a Sunday around 7 :15 Pm

Technical Info: Canon EOS 550D | ISO 200 | Focal Length 18mm | f/9 at 0.6 sec.
Title of the photograph: Beauty of Mysore
Photo of the Day Award Category: Night Photography
Photograph Location: India
Photographer: Sandeep Chandra T R (Bangalore,India)
Sandeep Chandra lives in Bangalore and has done his BE in Computer Science. He is currently working as a software engineer in one of the IT firms in Bangalore. He loves making friends and traveling. One of his dreams is to travel the whole world. Photography is his passion and he feels photography is an expressive form of art and it’s technical as well. His current photography is around nature, wildlife, landscape, portraits and he also does lot of experiments on artistic photography.
Portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanchantr
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sanchantr

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