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 (3)
See all- Deer Island: Industrial Beauty & Urban Forest165 Tafts Ave, Winthrop, MA
Let's go back to wonderful Deer Island, where odd shaped industrial objects reign supreme.
Aside from the usual, we will try something different: This area offers a lot of possibilities for "Urban Forest" shots; juxtapositions of forest and industrial buildings. It includes the water treatment plant and has a public walkway that many people use to jog at night. It is safe, well lit, and about we will stick to the norhtern part, which is less wlaking and offers elevated views from the top of the hill down on the water tanks.
We'll meet an hour after sunset to let the parking lot clear out. The prediction as of today is for medium and high clouds, but this offers opportunities for colorful reflected light, or cloud movement during long exposures. If you go off the path or take the paths up the hill on the north side of the plant, you will want to have a flashlight handy, but please be considerate of others if you need to light your way.
Below are some images to give you an idea. Bring your lens shades to avoid flares, anything from super-wide to medium zoom will be usable. Shooting the water tanks from the hill can even use some 200 mm zooming.
It may be somewhat smelly in some of the places, this is a water/sewage treatment plan, but it's not too bad.
There are many great and very different objects to shoot in this location, from a rusty anchor point, water tanks, stairs, a grassy hill to the rotten poles sticking out the water. And the area is large, the group can spread out without getting into each other's way.
Vaccinated people only, please. No guests as always.
More pictures:
- Partial Lunar EclipseCastle Island, Boston, MA
We will have a partial lunar eclipse coming up. It will only be 3.5% obscured (see above to get an impression), but this will be great practice for the total lunar eclipse coming next March!
Let's get together to practice this and if you want to prepare for it, download my eBook on lunar eclipses.
Here's the timing for the Boston area:
Partial begins Sep 17 at 10:12:58 pm
Maximum Sep 17 at 10:44:18 pm - @ 142 degrees (South-East)
Partial ends Sep 17 at 11:15:38 pmWhat you need is a long lens anywhere between 400 and 1600mm focal length and your camera. Bring a second camera and wide angle lens for the landscape and if you have a sky tracker, it'll make centering the moon on the long lens easier. We will have about 45 minutes to set up before the eclipse begins.