What is Nightscape Photography? With Matthew Saville

Oct 14, 2021

Ryan and Joey are joined by nightscape photographer Matthew Saville today. Nightscape photography is the art of shooting landscapes at night with particular emphasis on stars. It’s separate from the more scientific astrophotography but shares many of the same challenges such as extremely low light and very long exposure times. Optically it’s one of the most demanding types of photography imaginable. Just about any flaw in a lens is going to be more noticeable when shooting nightscapes so we’ll be covering Matthew’s go-to gear, how he decides what to take on a shoot, and his favorite techniques for capturing nightcaps.

• Find Matthew Saville all over the internet:
  
  • Matthew's Website
  • Instagram
  • YouTube 
  • Matthew's very cool low-light metering article
  • Matthew's articles on the Lensrentals blog
    
    
• Gear Mentioned
  • Canon RF 15-35mm f/2.8L IS
  • Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM
  • Rokinon SP 14mm f/2.4
  • Sigma 14mm f/1.8
  • Sony FE 14mm f/1.8 GM
  • Nikon Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S
  • Sigma 14-24mm f/2.8
  • Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 Di III RXD for Sony E
  • Sony Alpha a7R III
  • Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM
  • Slik Tripods
    
    
• The Lensrentals Podcast is a production of Lensrentals, founded by Roger Cicala. Our production staff includes Drew Cicala, Ryan Hill, Sarah McAlexander, SJ Smith, Julian Harper, John Tucker, and Zach Sutton. Other contributors include Roger Cicala, Joey Miller, Ally Aycock Patterson, Joshua Richardson, and Philip Robertson.
  
  
• Thanks to Jacques Granger for our theme song.
  
  
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