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But what I like the most about this headlamp is that it can be turned on to its least powerful setting. It has a maximum brightness of 900 lumens, which can be very handy when negotiating trails at night, or other times when you absolutely must have a bright light at hand. This headlamp has many important features that I have grown accustomed to. I use the Nitecore HC90 headlamp shown above. When I am shooting by myself I use my headlamp freely, however when shooting along with others, I rarely use my headlamp outside of hiking from my vehicle to the shooting locale and back.

The next light that I always have with me on a night shoot is my headlamp. Hopefully, I will have prevented someone from inadvertently becomingÂ “that guy”.

It saves a lot of hard feelings, as well as images.

These little lights are so cheap that I buy them in bulk, and pass them around freely whenever I am shooting at night with others. It is amazing how little light you really need to accomplish your night photography tasks, once you become familiar with handling and adjusting your equipment in the dark. The second, unwrapped and brighter LED key chain light, is great for looking through your camera bag or checking your surroundings, again, without bothering others. Just bright enough to read markings, but dim enough that it does not bother other photographers around you. It is perfect for adjusting settings or looking at degree markings on a panoramic head. One is wrapped with gaffers tape to dim the light to a small, focused beam. I have two of these small, inexpensive key chain lights attached to a lanyard that goes around my neck as soon as I start setting up my gear for the night. You know who I’m talking about -Â “that guy” who approaches you with a question and has his headlamp shining right into your eyes, “that guy”Â who fishes a 2000 lumen flashlight from his bag and lights up the entire county in order to change a setting on his camera,Â “that guy” who has read an astronomy magazine article about how red light preserves night vision, so now all of your images have his red light bleeding into all of your images ( see this article on the Night Photography Workshop blog about the evil of red lights).Â “That guy”Â never gets invited to go shooting with others again.

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Do not be “that guy” (to my friends of the female persuasion, feel free to substitute “that gal”). Well, my friends, I am about to tell you a hard truth, something your best friend might hesitate to tell you for fear of hurting your feelings. You probably have one sitting in your kitchen junk drawer (everybody has a junk drawer, right?). I’ll start with my most used and cherished light. I will attempt to show you how it has affected me, in this round-the-kitchen-table style post regarding my light kit. One thing I have discovered is that if you get bitten by the night-lighting bug, the result is usually Gear Acquisition Syndrome, in which every type of light source becomes an object of desire. One aspect of night photography that I really enjoy is the use of added light to achieve some desired outcome. My Night Photography Light Kit | Night Sky Ramblins