Tuesday, January 10th, 2017

Hello, my name is Kevin Adams, and I’m addicted to layers. There, I said it.
Yes, I use Photoshop. And Photoshop layers. I even—gasp—shoot and stack multiple exposures for some of my images. Now that I’ve admitted committing such a crime, I don’t expect anyone to look at my images ever again without suspicion. How could Read more... you know you want to.
Tags: car light streaks, layers, Photoshop, Venus Posted in All Posts, Car Light Streaks, Light Painting, Miscellaneous, Night Photo Techniques, Planets, Soapbox | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 10th, 2013

The images on the “Night Photos” pages are selected from blog posts, but these pages include only a sampling of the relevant images. If you want to see all of the content for a certain topic, use the blog’s “Search” feature.
Tags: car light streaks, car lights Posted in All Posts, Car Light Streaks, Night Photo Subjects | No Comments »
Sunday, May 19th, 2013

Note: I shot every image in this post from the same location.
In this recent galactic post, I talked about exploring those “one of these days” places that we all drive by on the way to somewhere else. Well, now I want to talk a little bit about those “somewhere else” places that we’re always on Read more... you know you want to.
Tags: Big Dipper, blue hour, Blue Ridge Parkway, car light streaks, clouds, contrails, crepuscular rays, fog, God beams, Jupiter, Looking Glass Rock, meteors, Mount Pisgah, night photography, Pink Beds, Pisgah National Forest, planets, Pleiades, satellites, sunbeams, sunrises, twilight, Venus Posted in All Posts, Daytime Photography, Miscellaneous | 2 Comments »
Friday, January 11th, 2013

I need a bumper sticker that says, “I brake for overpasses.”
When I’m shooting in a city, overpasses are my friends. They give me an elevated view not only of the highway, but often, also of the city skyline. So when I scout a city for good photo ops, I try to locate as many bridges Read more... you know you want to.
Tags: 14-24, car light streaks, fog, streetlights Posted in All Posts, Nightly Night Photo | No Comments »
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013

These kinds of photos are crazy easy to shoot. Just find an overpass over a divided highway and use a wide-angle lens to accentuate the convergence effect.
The key is finding the right overpass and photographing at the right time. You want something interesting on the horizon, like mountains, a city skyline, or most anything that Read more... you know you want to.
Tags: 14-24, car light streaks, night photography, twilight, Venus Posted in All Posts, Night Photo Subjects, Night Photo Techniques, Nightly Night Photo, Planets, Twilight | No Comments »