How to take incredible night photos. Part 1/3.

I'm going to show you how to take incredible night photos.

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Surely you've seen many times those stunning night photos of landscapes, cities or the stars and nebulas and you've got a tremendous desire to take photos of that style ... but when you've tried it has seemed too complicated.

This is the article you were waiting for, and not because I wrote it, but today I would like to introduce you to the fascinating world of night photography as God intended. Believe me, the difficulty that appears to have is not so much. Yes, you have to know and master certain concepts first (for that I am writing and you are reading this), but the visual result of this type of photography is extremely rewarding. It's worth it.

You already know that in order to take photos, light is needed and that their absence is our worst enemy ... but strange as it may seem, there is always a small thread of light.

In this article we talk about night photography ... but how nighttime? It depends on what you want to photograph. If you want to photograph buildings in the city and cut out something on the horizon, the best time is the blue hour.
The blue hour is one in which the artificial lights of buildings balance their intensity with sunlight.
For the purposes of our eyes it seems to be daytime but in the photographs the result is from a nighttime photograph.
A perfect example is my photograph of the Emisferic of Valencia taken at that strange hour in which the lights are balanced.
If you want to photograph the stars or the Milky Way, you will need something more dark. Besides you have to do the photos in closed night, the photos can not be done near a big city because the light pollution that it produces will prevent the camera from seeing the stars well. That implies how it is logical that you can not make photos with moon, or full or otherwise.