Digital 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 first part of this two part series on how to take good night photographs.

For the first segment, Seidel focuses on digital night photography using a Nikon D3X, which he primarily uses for night work.  Armed with two wide-angle lenses, Seidel sets out to photograph on allied airfield in Tegel, Berlin.

Seidel likes to capture movement at night over an extended period of time. Cars leaving a trail of light down the street and people only registering as outlines or shadows make for some very non-descript yet ethereal photo scenes. But that’s what makes his photos all the more attractive because we can all identify with the situations one way or another—even if we’ve never seen anything like it.

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.