Glenn Randall - Dusk to Dawn

Glenn Randall

Dusk to Dawn

A Guide to Landscape Photography at Night

Glenn Randall

www.glennrandall.com

Project editor: Maggie Yates

Project manager: Lisa Brazieal

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Copyeditor: Maggie Yates

Layout and type: Hespenheide Design

Cover design: Aren Straiger

Front cover image: Glenn Randall

ISBN: 978-1-68198-306-6

1st Edition (1st printing, June 2018)

2018 Glenn Randall

All images Glenn Randall unless otherwise noted

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This book is dedicated to the champions of wilderness, both celebrated and unknown, who have fought to preserve the wild places that inspire nature photographers to create their art.

Front Cover Image:The Milky Way over dunes at Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. September 25, 2016, 8:51 p.m. Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM. Seven focus positions, focus-stacked images aligned and blended in Photoshop, 30 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 6400. Two F&V HDV-Z96 flat-panel LED lights fitted with 85B warming filters provided the light on the foreground.

Back Cover Image:Aurora over Mt. Monolith, Tombstone Territorial Park, Yukon Territory, Canada. March 17, 2015, 2:33 a.m. Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM, 6 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 3200.

The roots of this book date back to August 2011, when I saw a slideshow by Colorado landscape photographer Grant Collier. His images of the Milky Way glowing over landscapes in Utah opened my eyes to the potential of the latest digital cameras to make stunning images at night. Thanks, Grant! Over the next seven years I learned from, and was inspired by, the writings and night photographs of a number of other landscape photographers, including Adam Woodworth, David Kingham, Floris van Breugel, Ian Norman, Michael Frye, Patrick Endres, and Royce Bair. Thanks to all of you for sharing your insights through your articles and books. Id particularly like to thank Roger Clark, a professional astronomer and ardent night photographer, whose extensive website provided a great deal of technical information on the best cameras, lenses, and field techniques for night photography. Dr. Stan Solomon, senior scientist at the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Professor Scott Bailey at Virginia Tech provided helpful insight into the complex physics of airglow. Id like to thank the staff at Rocky Nook, particularly my editor, Maggie Yates, whose eagle-eyed, thoughtful, and meticulous editing helped make this book the best it could be. Most importantly, Id like to thank my wife, Cora, an atmospheric scientist whose perceptive questions, boundless curiosity, and insistence on scientific rigor encouraged me to go beyond a superficial understanding of whatever topic was at hand, and whose tolerance of long absences made it possible to create the images in this book.