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Moon Streaks at the Night Photo Summit

It is not too late to register for the Night Photo Summit!

I am honored to be part of the upcoming 2025 Night Photo Summit, the online education event organized by the National Parks at Night team.

The summit is from Friday, January 24 to Sunday the 26th, 2025 and will have more than 40 presenters providing 50+ hours of educational content, and there will be $12000 worth of give-aways. I will be giving away 10 copies of my new lunar eclipse tutorial (see next) to the attendees of my talk.

My presentation will be on Saturday, January 25th at 12:45 ET and it will be about creating streaks of the rising or setting moon by using very long exposures of 10 to 40 minutes, a photography technique that I have been promoting for a few years now and which we often practice in my Meetup group. These moon streaks show subtle details of the differently shaded moon features, but do not clip in the highlights.

I will cover the equipment that one needs to do this type of photography, the planning for locations to have interesting foreground objects, tips & tricks when onsite and also the post-processing steps, which are important for intriguing results.

I hope to you see you there!



New Lunar Eclipse Tutorial Released

There will be a total lunar eclipse visible in North America coming up in March, and another one in September for Eastern Europe/Africa and most of Asia, both wonderful opportunities to photograph the blood moon, that maroon-red colored shade, which happens when the moon is fully eclipsed by Earth's shadow.

This is a 38 page eBook, a brand-new, in-depth tutorial on how to photograph lunar eclipses.

The eBook covers a lot of details about planning and setting up your photo shoot, what equipment to use and options you have (both required and optional), the settings for both the moon photos and the landscape photos if you use a second camera, what to think about for all eventualities, what to do in bad weather (hint: don't dismiss it, still go out!) and I also cover post-processing of the photos that you took. And, of course, with lots of inspiring and detail photos.

I am offering this eBook with an introductory 20% discount until February 28th, after which it will go back up to full price. Use discount code 8D416.

How to get this ebook for free?

For starters, you can sign up for the Night Photo Summit above, attend my presentation and have a pretty good chance of winning a copy.

You can also sign up for my Patreon channel at the Tier 3 level (Twilight Lover) which includes this eBook for free.

And, if you remain as a member on my Patreon channel (at any level), there are give-aways from time to time, this tutorial will be one of them over the next months.

By the way, don't forget to update your copyright IPTC notices and watermarks in Lightroom, Camera Raw, Photoshop or whatever other program you use for editing.

Until next time, please find me online here.