About us
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 even 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. If you pay right away, you still get 13 months of membership.
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.
We are looking forward to seizing the night with you!
Jürgen, GBNP Organizer
Find me online at https://LinkTr.ee/JMLobert/
Upcoming events
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Partial Solar Eclipse
Castle Island, 2010 William J Day Blvd, Boston, MA, USWe will have a solar eclipse on August 12. It is a total eclipse only in Europe, in the Boston area, we will see a 16% eclipse, roughly what the above photo shows. An eclipse is always a nice treat and I urge you to practice photographing it.
You need one piece of special equipment for this, that is a solar filter for your lens, because the full sun is too bright for cameras, even at ISO 50 and f/22. The solar filter acts like a 17 stop neutral density filter, but it is very thin, not creating any flares or reflections (as glass filters do). You can buy this on Amazon and make it yourself, all you need is a step-down ring from whatever the thread of your long lens is (usually 95mm) to 82 mm. That gives you a 1/4" rim to glue the filter on.
There is a brief description on my Patreon and Substack channels, but you can also download the full solar eclipse tutorial from my Shopify store.
You will need: tripod, remote control, camera (mounting plate!), long lens, at least 400 mm, better 600 and the solar filter for that lens. Also bring a wide angle lens to take a few foreground photos before and/or after, into which you can compose the sequence of individual photos of the sun, at the location you actually were.
It is also good to have solar viewing glasses, so that you can look straight into the sun and enjoy it alongside your camera.
This event is weather dependent. If it is totally socked in, we won't see anything, but if it is partly cloudy or with thin clouds (as above!), we can still do it. Check the comments for updates.
Please check in with the organizer before you move someplace else and, as always, no guest photographers.
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93% Partial Lunar Eclipse
Memorial Park Beach Bandstand, Beach Street, Sharon, MA, USThis will be a late night to early morning event. We will be witnessing 93% partial lunar eclipse. This eclipse will not be total anywhere, we are in the middle of the maximum eclipse path. We may, however, see a little bit of red in the shadows of the moon, as shown above.
TimeAndDate.com has the gory details and visuals to see how this will look.
Partial begins Aug 27 at 10:33:54 pm - south-east
Maximum is Aug 28 at 12:12:53 am
Partial ends Aug 28 at 1:51:59 am - south westWe will be setting up 45 minutes prior to the start of the show. Location will be announced later.
Here's what you need to bring: a long lens (400-600 mm full frame), tripod, intervalometer, a sky tracker if you have one. You can also bring a second camera with wide angle lens for the landscape and to potentially create a timelapse.
Consider downloading my 43 page eBook on how to plan for, scout and execute lunar eclipses, which you can get on my Shopify.
Also bring a lawn chair or mat to sit or lie down, we will be very close to the cars. Drinks and snacks are great, too, this will be a long night.
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