Analogue Night Photography

Leo Seidel is a photographer from Berlin, Germany specializing in night photography, better yet, and twilight photography. Today he sits down to explain what his shooting methods are in the second part of this two part series on how to take good night photographs.

For the second segment, Seidel focuses on analogue night photography using a large format analogue camera and digital camera, to make comparisons between the two. Seidel also gives a recap of all that was learned in the first part of this series, on digital night photography. He discusses the technical aspects, the choice of lighting, and the weather conditions that can make digital night photography ideal.

Since shooting analog and digital are shooting two different types altogether. Seidel clarifies the differences between the two in regards to night photography. He highlights both their strengths and weaknesses and in what situation you are better off choosing which medium. Analogue definitely has its advantages; it is highly stylistic and very exquisite looking. It is definitely a very sophisticated way for photographers to show what they can do. But analogue photography is expensive. Very expensive in comparison to digital files, which are free. But Digital photography does have its strengths and advantages as well and Seidel does an excellent job listing the pros and cons.

Most importantly, Seidel stresses that photographers should have fun with night shooting and experiment as much as possible and always be on the lookout for things to shoot. There are three things technically that Seidel knows close to perfection that help him create such amazing photos, aperture, exposure time, and ISO. But his biggest advantage by far is having the eye for the right shot at the right time.