Capturing the Night with Your Camera: How to Take Great Photographs After Dark

by John Carucci

Book Overview

An illustrated guide to the techniques of night-time photography. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817436618
• ISBN13: 9780817436612
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Amphoto Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

A good general guide

I would recommend this work to beginners and photographers who are intermediate but have little or no experience with low light or night photography. There are better works out there on this subject that will serve the more advanced and serious amateur better than this volume might. I bought this book because it gave a good general overview of just about all the various aspects to an often overlooked area of photography. I nearly didn't buy it because I picked up Andrew Sandersons book at the same time. I had been vowing to buy Sandersons work for over a year and finally the time came. The only thing that made me buy this work was the excellent sections on Painting with light and Star Trails at the end of the book, rarely seen or discussed in any other photographic literature I have ever seen. I give this book a four star rating for tackling these last two sections but would otherwise have rated this book in parallel with Meehans 'Guide to Filters' for the exact same reasons.Having said all of the above it's a great general guide and if thats what you need then get this book. If you are an intermediate or professional needing something more dense to bite down on you can't go past Sandersons work which I have reviewed elsewhere.

It simplifies night photography

The book approaches the topic unlike any other in the existing light photogrphay genre. Where some other books fluff it up with technical talk, Carucci explains it all in plain english. Night photography is such a mystery, and the author explains all the elements that affect the picture in the first chapter. After that, each topic is covered in depth. Having a understanding in fundemental photography, I found this book informative though I'm not sure if a beginner would get as much out of it since Carucci seems to speak to readers that grasp the basics rather than those new to photography. Even if you're not into the text, the pictures themselves stand on their own.

An invaluable manual for night-time photography

I had been taking pictures for years before I read this book. I have read it multiple times since and learn something new each time. John Carucci takes you on a step by step process through not only night photography but photography itself. His photographs are incredible and best of all he gives detailed information on each shot. I am convinced that nighttime photography is the most interesting pursuit there is. I can honestly say that I have learned more about photography from this book than anything else that I have ever found.