What we’re about
This is a collective of people who share a passion for night and long exposure photography.
This Meetup is about gathering in groups, small or large, to capture the night and share the outcome with each other. Online events for image studies, goals review, training, as well as self-assigned challenges round out the program. Education, respectful and constructive feedback, exhibition of images and socializing during and after our gatherings are all part of our activities.
We explore old, new, popular and exotic places in the greater Boston area, southern New Hampshire and Maine, Rhode Island, northern Connecticut and central Massachusetts and there are occasional field trips to places such as New York or Maine. Inner city nightscapes are as much part of our portfolio, as will be dark sky star, astro-landscape and Milky Way shoots or light painting opportunities.
The group was founded in 2013 and has been active continuously. We average roughly one event every week, and we keep it alive throughout the winter. Photo shoots are most frequent, but we also have online lectures, individual challenges, conferences and public events and paid excursions. Browse our hundreds of "past meetups" to see what we have been doing.
Most standard meetups are free, membership dues will cover Meetup.com costs, minor group expenses and promotional means, invited lectures and trip organization expenses. There are also some paid events, as announced in those meetups, to provide services to learn from professionals in smaller groups with formal instructions, or to cover venue costs. You can sign up for this group for free and see if this is for you during the one month trial.
Night photography is exciting, presents the world in a truly different light and is serene and calming in many ways. However, it is also very different from daytime shooting, sometimes physically taxing and requires to watch out for yourself and others. All our meetups are conducted with adult and mature members, who provide safety through numbers, but you will always be responsible for your own safety.
Before you get started, please read the group policies: https://www.meetup.com/GBNight/messages/boa... .
We are looking forward to seizing the night with you!
Jürgen, GBNP Organizer
Find me online at https://LinkTr.ee/JMLobert/
Upcoming events (2)
See all- Total Solar EclipseNeeds location
Strictly speaking this is not a night event, nor long exposure event, but while the sun is blocked, it IS like twilight! :)
A very detailed tutorial on how to shoot the eclipse is on my Patreon channel: https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-shoot-98353799 (follow me for free).
Or you can download an extended PDF version of it from my shop.
We will have a full solar eclipse running across the US, starting in Mexico and moving all the way up to Maine and Canada. In the Boston area, we will see a 96% eclipse, it just barely misses us. How this will roughly look is shown in the image in the photos section, it will be a thin sliver, and you will suddenly "feel" it getting eeriely dark, but you will not see the corona, the most beautiful part of the eclipse (the center image above)
If you move further north-west, it will be easy to get into a locality where a full eclipse will be visible: Northern NY, VT, NH and ME, south west to Ohio, Indiana. However, the chance for cloudy skies in New England is 60-70%. The best chance for clear skies are in Texas and Mexico. Time of this event suggestion is for northern Vermont.
If you want to get the maximum possible time, make sure to be on the center path. The best resource is https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2024-april-8, and they have local maps and a detailed map to zoom in here.
Suggested locations: you can stand anywhere to just shoot the sun, any parking lot, for that matter. However, for a wide field photo like the above, a lake with reflections is nice to have in the foreground, looking south.
* Moosehead Lake, Maine
* Lake Champlain, Vermont/New York, probably one of the best locations (many hotels and anything you might need).
* Lake Ontario, from Watertown to Rochester, NY
* Lake Eerie, from Buffalo, NY to Cleveland, OHMore info:
https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/total-solar-eclipse-april8-24/ - Weekend Workshop: Advanced Night PhotographyGriffin Museum-Photography, Winchester, MA
Jürgen will be conducting a paid weekend workshop at the Griffin Museum of Photography on April 12-14. The workshop will cover astro-landscapes with star points and star trails as well as light painting, panoramas, image stacking and creative compositions.
The workshop starts with a 3 hour Zoom session on Friday, April 12, 2-5 pm, followed by an in-person photo shoot on location from 8-11 p.m. Sunday morning, April 14 from 9-12 a.m. will be an in-person editing and review session with instructions on how to edit these kinds of photos.
Please sign up for the workshop at the Griffin website, signing up here is only for informational purposes, but will not make you an attendee:
https://griffinmuseum.org/event/weekend-intensive-advanced-night-landscape-photography/