Hess - Night and Low-Light Photography Photo Workshop

Night and Low-light Photography Photo Workshop

Alan Hess

Night and Low-Light Photography Photo Workshop

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About the Author

Alan Hess is a photographer and author based in San Diego, California where he lives with his wife and two dogs. He has written books on both photography and technology including the Exposure Digital Field Guide, Composition Digital Field Guide, iPad Fully Loaded, and the iPad 2 Fully Loaded. His concert and backstage images appear in numerous online and print publications and they have also been used for promotional purposes, including music packaging.

Alan has been a part of the Instructor Dream Team for Photoshop World where he taught classes on concert and event photography and the basics of Exposure and Composition. He has written articles on concert photography and Photoshop for Photoshop User Magazine.

His website is www.alanhessphotography.com where he writes a semiregular blog or you can find him on Twitter as ShotLivePhoto.

Credits

Acquisitions Editor

Courtney Allen

Project Editor

Cricket Krengel

Technical Editor

Haje Jan Kamps

Copy Editor

Marylouise Wiack

Editorial Director

Robyn Siesky

Business Manager

Amy Knies

Senior Marketing Manager

Sandy Smith

Vice President and Executive Group Publisher

Richard Swadley

Vice President and Executive Publisher

Barry Pruett

Senior Project Coordinator

Kristie Rees

Graphics and Production Specialists

Jennifer Henry Andrea Hornberger Jennifer Mayberry

Quality Control Technician

Melissa Cossell Lauren Mandelbaum Dwight Ramsey

Proofreading

Laura Bowman

Indexing

Potomac Indexing, LLC

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my wife for enduring yet another book with crazy hours and weird schedules. This time at least it made sense as I was out creating the images for this book mostly at night.

Big thanks go to Courtney for all she does in getting me the right projects and to Cricket for trying her hardest to keep me on track, which is nearly impossible no matter how good my intentions are. Also, a big thanks to Haje for all his work making sure all the numbers and tech stuff are right. If you find something thats wrong, it just means I didnt fix something I should have. You can check out his work at http://kamps.org.

To the great group of photographers who helped with images, I couldnt have done this without you. A huge thanks goes out to all of you:

Kenny Kim for his help with the wedding chapter and all that goes into photographing some of the best weddings ever. You can find out more about Kenny at www.kennykim.com.

Larny Mack for his insight into photographing interiors and the use of his images to illustrate the point. Check out his work at www.larnymack.com.

Jacob Lucas for the use of his great star trails image, I cant thank you enough. His work is at www.jflphotography.com.

E. Howe-Bryne for the star trails image. It is a great shot and I am honored that you allowed me to use it here. For more on E. Howe-Bryne check out http://littleredtent.net/LRTblog.

Ken Toney who supplied the image of the flowing water and the use of the neutral density filter, its a great photograph and I thank you for its use here. Check out Kens work here: www.kentoneyphoto.com.

To everyone at Nik Software especially Laurie, Janice, and Kevin, thanks for everything. Working with you and your products is always a joy.

Dedication

For Nadra