Weekly Challenge 106: Night Landscape

Have you ever photographed a landscape at night? Noooo? Well, that’s what challenges are for, to challenge you to achieve what you haven’t yet dared to try.

How does it work? (Reminder)

Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in a photograph and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog, putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic. The themes will be varied, from portraits to Macro photography, through landscapes, black and white photography, or babies. The topics will be proposed on Saturdays, so that you have all the Weekend to work them. You will have one week to upload your photograph (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. On Friday or Saturday I will update the article with the photo that has captivated me the most and I will propose a new topic, and so on…

Weekly Challenge 106: Nightscapes

We are used to thinking of landscapes during the day. This is natural, because normally when we see a landscape it is in daylight and photography also needs light, blah, blah, blah… All this we already know. However, there is life beyond the sunset, including light, that of the moon, that of the stars and even that of nearby cities (luckily in this case or unfortunately for other things, we do not get rid of pollution luminous). This week I challenge you to take advantage of this light and capture an incredible and surprising night landscape. You may have already read our book: How to capture splendid landscapes in which we give you a lot of advice for this company, if you have not done so, this can be a great opportunity. And if not, then nothing happens either because you have a lot of other articles on the blog that tell you how to compose a landscape, the ideal objectives for landscapes, resources to master it…

Transport us to a magical place at night, under the protection of the moon or the stars, those of the firmament or the artificial ones that illuminate the concrete of cities, but show us your talent 😉

As usual, to participate in this week’s challenge upload your photo to the Facebook wall from the Photographer’s Blog: In the description of the photo please mention the keyword “Night Landscape Challenge” followed by a title of your choice.

Alternative Means to Participate

For those who do not be from Facebook I have enabled new social networks to participate.

• Flickr: accessing the Group Mural of the Photographer’s Blog and uploading the photo directly. Give your photo a caption and be sure to mention “Night Landscape Challenge” in the same.
• Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #BdFNightscapeChallenge

Happy photography.

Update

Beautiful night landscapes that you have sent! In cities, mountains or beaches… even an erupting volcano! Thank you! Every day you surprise me more (and better 😉 ) Here you have a small sample:

As you know, choosing a photograph is really subjective. Photography is an art and, within a few minimum parameters of correction, many factors enter into the choice, including personal or emotional, since the important thing, like any artistic work, is that it moves us, transports us to that place, move or make us feel something special. That is why this week I want to highlight the image of Arturo Enrique Merino Espinoza. Despite the fact that I am very fond of the sea and beach photographs draw me a lot (it should be quite noticeable), the Termas de Jahuel have captivated me. The author of it has taken the image in a successful nadir angle, an extreme perspective emphasized with a wide angle that makes you feel the embrace of the trees. When I saw the photo I instantly imagined myself lying on a sleeping bag, in the light of the stars and with a nearby bonfire giving me warmth. It has reminded me how wonderful it is to be in the middle of nature to be able to contemplate the dance of stars that the sky gives us every night, the silence that overwhelms the mountains when night falls and that only the sound of animals is capable of breaking. Beautiful chromatic harmony sprinkled with the stars that move in the image due to the long exposure capture. In this way he has also been able to capture the light given off by the city in the background, as if it were a fire. Thank you for transporting us to the heart of nature under the cover of night!