“Half the park is after dark” is a catchy slogan used by our national parks, and Royce is encouraging you to discover this unique world with your photographic night vision. During the past two decades Royce has been able to avoid the crowds in our public lands and find amazing beauty and solitude in places that are oftentimes crawling with tourists in the daytime — it’s like a whole new world of photographic opportunity! In his presentation, he hopes to not only get you excited about “nightscapes” but help you find new ways of seeing and enhancing your nighttime compositions. If you’ve tried astrophotography in the past and found it challenging, he will help you break some of the technical barriers and make it more fun and fulfilling. If you think you’ve already figured it out, he will assure you that there is much more to learn. Royce will show you new techniques that are opening up many exciting horizons in the astro-landscape photography genre!
This presentation will be held in person on February 6th at 6:30 PM at the Salt Lake City Library main branch. Remember to bring your parking ticket to the main desk for validation for two hours of free parking.
Bio: Royce Bair has been a professional magazine and illustrative advertising photographer for three decades. He is one the early innovators of a genre of night photography some call “nightscapes,” and has often been called “the founding father of landscape astrophotography.” His unique images have received worldwide newspaper and magazine syndication. Royce believes the foreground is just as important as the starry night sky, and may need additional natural or artificial light enhancement for better recognition and aesthetic appreciation. Lecturing throughout the world, Royce has taught various ways to accomplish this, including his public service website on “Low Level Lighting” method.