Not Quite Night series #93 – The Distance Between Us

DWELL IN THE NIGHT Official Release

Good evening nightographers! Hope everyone has a great week. Tonight I'm excited to announce the release of my life-long night photography project, Dwell In The Night. It's been a long journey for me since I started this project in late 2004. To date, there are 30 photographs and more to come. All photographs are made with an old Shanghai TLR camera on 120 medium format black and white film.

Click on the project title highlighted above to view the photographs on my website. I hope you enjoy viewing my works as much as I enjoy making them. Do subscribe to my blog if you haven't already done so, and follow me on my Instagram and NQN Instagram.

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Night Street Photo – Untitled

Not Quite Night series #92

Good evening nightographers! Hope everyone is safe and healthy in this difficult time. It's more than six months since my last blog post. My sincere apologies for the long hiatus. I was caught up with work commitment and I picked up a sport that I am spending more time in training and playing. Yes, I picked up Table Tennis again after so many years since I last played in my teens. So yeah I confess I have neglected my night photography but I'm more fitter, stronger, and healthier than ever before. And I am proud that I am fully vaccinated.

Well, tonight I'm back with a new Not Quite Night photo of an iconic art center in Singapore, and also to share a piece of updated news with you. So let's jump right into it.

Night Street Panorama – A City Beneath A Veil of Calm

I got this panorama photo filed in my archival hard disk and almost forgotten about it until now. It was made in early December 2018 with a swing lens panorama film camera. On that same night, I made another photo of the same night scene with my beloved RICOH GR2, also with the same title, which is featured here.

Photo Info:

HORIZON PERFEKT | 28mm | settings not recorded | Kodak Portra 800 Exposed for +2/3 f/stop | Film developed and scanned at Whampoa Colour Center | Further post-processed in Photoshop

Night Street Photo – Night After Sidewalk No. 9

NIKON D70s • Tamron 17-35mm @ f/3.0 1/40 sec. ISO 1600

RAW file post-processed in Photoshop

Night Street Photo – Night After Sidewalk No. 8

Single version – Apple iPhone 6 Plus on Camera+

JPEG post-processed in Photoshop

Double version – NIKON D70s • Tamron 17-35mm

RAW file post-processed in Photoshop

Good evening nightographers! It's Friday night and here are two new night street photos I'm going to share with you. This is a sequel to the last blog post of the same location same night scene but different human subjects and titles. In the last post, silhouettes were captured, for that mysterious and moody effect.

Tonight's street photos featured human subjects walked by in the foreground of the alleyway. I made two versions - one with a Smartphone and the other with a DSLR camera respectively. The light level in this alleyway is pretty low and contrasty and posed a great challenge to capture moving subjects, especially with my 17 years old NIKON D70s. The highest ISO of this old camera is 1600 and I always shoot in Manual mode as I want to have controls on the exposures. Well, it's obvious I have really limited ISO along with a slow Tamron 17-35mm lens, I have to hold my breath and camera really well and steady, at a slow shutter speed between 1/15 to 1/30 second. Exposure Compensation was applied and set to +1 value.

As for the Smartphone camera, Apple iPhone 6 Plus camera back lens has an aperture of f/2.2. I used the Camera+ app in which I'm able to set the White Balance, ISO, and Shutter Speed. WB was set to Auto, ISO at 160, and shutter speed at 1/4 second. Comparing the two photos, they almost have similar results.

Which version do you prefer? Let me know of your preference on the Comment section below. I'd love to hear from you.

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Night Street Photo – One Way & No Others No. 3

Version 1 – NIKON D70s • Tamron 17-35mm
RAW file post-processed in Photoshop

Version 2 – Apple iPhone 6 Plus on Camera+

JPEG post-processed in Photoshop

Good evening nightographers! Tonight I'm sharing with you 2 new night street photos I made last Friday night. I was out in the street of Little India and came across this alleyway. So I thought it would be a nice spot to do "fishing". I took a few test shots for exposure and composition while waiting for the right subject to walk into the frame. Though it's not a busy alleyway with heavy human traffic however there are people walking by from time to time. I made as many photos as possible and these two photos stood out pretty strong, which I like it very much.

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Not Quite Night series #91

Good evening nightographers! It's another night blog to share my new night street photograph on Not Quite Night series. Tonight I would be taking you to this interesting location where I made NQN #91. So let's jump right into.

Night 38

Street Silence

Zebra Crossing

Rainy Duxton

Night Rain

Unique Bus-stop