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Table of Contents
| Introduction | 4 |
| Foreword from the author | 5 |
| A Logical Progression | 7 |
| The Buzz of Light Painting | 9 |
| The Different Types of Lightpainting | 10 |
| A Photographer Who Does Some Beautiful Light Painting | 11 |
| Security | 12 |
| Part 1 - Night Photography | 13 |
| The Camera | 14 |
| Tripod | 14 |
| Cable release | 14 |
| Torch | 15 |
| Spare Camera Battery | 16 |
| Accessories | 16 |
| What You Need to Know | 17 |
| Familiarity with your camera | 17 |
| Turning Off Long Exposure Noise Reduction | 18 |
| F-stops and understanding exposure | 19 |
| How to read your camera histogram | 20 |
| The Challenges of Night Photography | 22 |
| Challenge # 1 – Navigating in the dark | 22 |
| Challenge # 2 - Composing your shot | 23 |
| Challenge # 3 – Focusing | 23 |
| Challenge # 4 - Calculating your Exposure | 23 |
| Calculating your exposure at night | 24 |
| Noise and Night Photography | 24 |
| Estimating Exposure Method # 1 – High ISO test shots | 25 |
| Estimating Night Exposures Method # 2 – Pocket Chart | 27 |
| Planning Night Shoots | 28 |
| Understanding the ambient light | 28 |
| Determining sunrise and sunset times | 28 |
| Ideal time to photograph at night | 31 |
| Different Types of Night Photography | 32 |
| Photographing Lights | 32 |
| Photographing Landscapes | 33 |
| Startrails | 35 |
| Software for Post Processing Startrails | 36 |
| Processing Your Night Images | 37 |
| Part 2: Light Painting | 38 |
| Equipment | 40 |
| Light sources | 41 |
| My Journey of Experimentation | 41 |
| Building a light wand | 49 |
| What you need to buy | 49 |
| Assembling the Light Wand | 51 |
| Other lighting Sources | 55 |
| Light Painting techniques | 57 |
| Light Painting Method # 1: All-in-camera | 57 |
| Light Painting Method # 2: Isolate-and-blend | 58 |
| Light Painting Step-by-step | 60 |
| Setting up | 60 |
| The base exposure | 62 |
| Selective lighting | 62 |
| Light painting techniques | 62 |
| Example 1: Middle Head Bunker | 66 |
| Example 2: Malabar Head Bunker | 70 |
| Post Processing | 74 |
| RAW conversion | 74 |
| Noise Reduction | 74 |
| Creating your composite image | 75 |
| Finishing Up | 84 |
| Getting Help | 85 |
| Final Words | 86 |