Yes, that's right, today is the day we study those few greats who have made low light photography their wonderland. Somehow its not that hard for me to pick out photographers that have excelled at this field and thank goodness we have A LOT of resources at out disposal. If not we might have to rely on me! Scary.
Now I'm going to be prejudice here only because I am familiar with one photographer in particular who's work caught me years ago. He does a large bit of night photos, especially with that lag effect I was talking so longly about yesterday. For the most part the most all these works contain the unmoving structure which I'd mentioned, giving the light rivers a more... science fiction effect. His name? Heck if I know. Hahaha. Yup that's right, I don't know his name. All I know s that he's won awards and is widely regarded across the world of DeviantArt.com as... a genius. His alias? 'foureyes. My favorite piece by his is of the Water Cube in China. He also does what we call... I mean what I call, low light portraiture. Very god considering he even has his own models. Amazing work, definitely worth checking out if you enjoy that particular thing.
Our next photographer was one I found on our beloved Internet, Beau Comeaux. A studio photography by degree, night artist by heart. This fellow has made a significant contribution to the 'Night & Low Light Photography' book by Jill Waterman. There are significant amount of people in that book, but as I have been going through Beau is the only one that does such a thing regularly. Most of his work, as I have seen on the Internet is largely accenting of rural homes, making them seem almost ethereal. Now he is no 'foureyes, but he is certainly got the trade down to an art.
Unfortunately for us, low light photographers are not highly praised, so finding them by specifics creates great difficulty for people like me. Its like searching for 5 needles in an endless lake of hay. That Internet... woo is me for your girth is too overwhelming. This brings me to the sad point that for today I can only give you three of these grand masters. Some of you may think I'm lame, but I don't see you writing a blog about it!
Ahem...
David Elias. Another well known around the DeviantArt scene, David does mostly photo-shopped work to give more emphasis to his photographs, but he is still certainly amazing in his craft. David has a unique way of capturing landscapes in low light. Two of my favorites are the piece 'Waning Light' and the other 'Light of Luna.'
Now I have never, in all my time of owning a camera, been able to take a picture of the moon that honestly captured its beauty the way that he has done. I mean who hasn't looked at the moon, taken its picture, then looked at it later and realized the picture you have taken resembles that of a huge glow-in-the-dark kick ball that you kind of lobbed into the air and is simply just a round thing... instead of... you know, craters and the rabbit that's making rice balls? This is why tonight's project shall be!!!! Photographing the moon. For those of you interested this is usually where I say lets do something in an ode to one of these photographers, but tonight... tonight lets do something for them all, and which ever one comes out the nicest will find its way here.
Yes indeed, tonight will be the night to end all nights!
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baggybunny
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