©Roberto Bertero
Night photography
Our cameras are observing "reality" in a much different way if compared to the way our eyes are reading the surrounding world.
We all know that during daylight our eyes are offering infinitely superior performance of any camera available on the market, but when darkness falls the situation is somehow reversed... electronic equipments can go much beyond our powers of observation... this, in short, due to the ability to record light for long periods of time (through long exposures), although our eyes are erroneously communicating to our brain that there is "no more light" all around.
Actually there is always light, even when we just see only darkness. This is one of the first things you learn by practicing night photography seriously.
Our cameras are observing "reality" in a much different way if compared to the way our eyes are reading the surrounding world.
We all know that during daylight our eyes are offering infinitely superior performance of any camera available on the market, but when darkness falls the situation is somehow reversed... electronic equipments can go much beyond our powers of observation... this, in short, due to the ability to record light for long periods of time (through long exposures), although our eyes are erroneously communicating to our brain that there is "no more light" all around.
Actually there is always light, even when we just see only darkness. This is one of the first things you learn by practicing night photography seriously.
