This workshop will help anyone make striking and surprising images between dusk and dawn. It's the second in a new series from Redeye, "The Fundamentals of Photography", aimed at building your photographic style and helping you take memorable images.

Cities transform under the cloak of night-time and colour temperatures dramatically change the mood and atmosphere of photographs. Van Gogh once famously said "I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day." From early daguerreotypes exposed by moonlight, via Stieglitz's nocturnal night scenes of downtown New York to the social landscape work of Nadav Kander's Los Angeles freeways, we will take you on a whistle stop tour of the history of urban nightscapes in photography before delving into techniques that will enable you to produce striking images of your own.

Along with looking at ISOs, effective tripod work, long exposures, capturing motion, using high grain to your advantage & looking for the light, our expert tutors will guide you through the manual settings on your DSLR for best results.

You will learn how colour temperature can dramatically change the urban landscape by night & how you can utilise this to best effect in your images. You'll look at when to use flash, or not, and how to use other sorts of lighting and different techniques to highlight part of a photo.

After the workshop finishes in Manchester Central Library, there's the chance to apply some of these techniques outside, with the tutor on hand until 21:00.

Who is this workshop aimed at?
The workshop is aimed at anyone who has not tried night-time photography, or who has but is not satisfied with the results.

What to bring:
If you have one, please bring any working camera (including any lens) that has manual controls – usually represented by the letter M on the dial or a menu. This can be a digital or film SLR, Compact System Camera (sometimes called “mirrorless”) or a digital compact or “bridge” camera with a manual setting. It should have a fully-charged battery, and a card with some space on it – unless it’s a film camera of course.
As well as your camera, please bring a tripod if you have (or can borrow one for the evening). And again, if you have one or can borrow one, a flashgun too (with fresh batteries in!).

Tutor biogs:

Adam Lee
Adam Lee is a freelance photographer and workshop facilitator based in Liverpool. His work has been published in the Observer, The Observer Escape Magazine, the Independent on Sunday, the The Big Issue North and Granta Books. His personal work has been exhibited at the Instituto Cervantes, Manchester; the Bluecoat, Liverpool; The Writing on the Wall Festival, Liverpool and the Wigtown Book Festival, Wigtown. Adam regularly teaches courses in photography, both for London based Charity Photo Voice as well as on a freelance basis.

Paul Herrmann
Paul Herrmann is a photographer and the director of Redeye, the Photography Network. He has been a freelance editorial photographer since the mid 1980s, specialising in social issues and the arts and has spent a lot of his photographic career photographing night-time performances, street theatre, news events and cityscapes. In the late 1990s he helped start Redeye, and as its director built it to the largest and most successful professional development network for photographers in the UK. He is also the chair of the British Photographic Council, the umbrella body for UK photography trade associations. He talks and writes on a range of business and professional issues in photography.

Venue and Timing:
The network event will take place at Manchester Central Library, St. Peters Square, Manchester, M2 5PD on Thursday 20 November 2014 from 17:30 - 20:00.

Price:
Redeye Members: £30.00
Standard: £35.00
All prices include VAT.

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