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After Dark Photography PodcastAuthor: Kristine Richer
The amount of detail modern digital cameras can capture of the night sky is AMAZING. But what exactly goes into creating nightscape images? Listen in as Kristine Richer, artist, mother, educator, and CEO takes you on a journey into the dark with your camera. As a new mom Kristine found herself without a creative outlet, gone were the laid-back weekends of chasing waterfalls and sunsets with her dog and camera. So she did what any totally sane new mom would do and stayed up all night photographing the stars instead of sleeping. Now Kristine has taught over ten thousand students how to photograph the Milky Way and has created a dedicated community of slightly crazy, night-obsessed photographers just like her. In the After Dark Photography podcast Kristine brings together the artistic right brain and technical left brain by exploring creativity, art, and inspiration in photography, as well as the technique, gear, and strategy necessary to elevate your craft and get started in night photography. Step into the dark with her and find a world filled with awe and wonder just waiting for your camera to capture it. Language: en-ca Genres: Arts, Visual Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Episode 62: What 1,000+ Milky Way Questions Taught Me
Episode 62
Friday, 10 July, 2026
What if your technical photography questions are not really about settings, equipment, or editing? After reviewing seven years of student Q&A transcripts, Kristine uncovers four deeper questions involving permission, self-worth, trust, and artistic legitimacy, and explains how recognizing them can help photographers learn, create, and grow with greater confidence.Key Takeaways: Many “Should I?” photography questions are actually requests for permission. Replacing “Should I do this?” with “What happens if I try this?” turns uncertainty into experimentation.Gear questions often emerge from the uncomfortable gap between a photographer’s current work and the polished images they admire. That gap is frequently caused by editing, experience, and practice, not inadequate equipment.Confidence in night photography develops through repeated experience. Checking settings, making mistakes, and returning home without the hoped-for results are not signs of failure, they are part of the cost of learning.Photography is an interpretation rather than an objective record of reality. Blends, composites, editing, and other creative decisions can still produce honest and meaningful art when they reflect the photographer’s intentions and experience.As photographers progress, their questions evolve from operating the camera, to managing their workflow, to developing artistic style and meaning. The questions change because the photographer is growing.The next time you catch yourself asking whether you should do something in your photography, pause and look for the question underneath it. Ask what might happen if you tried, then take your camera outside, experiment, and let experience provide the answer.
