{"id":104,"date":"2026-04-09T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/what-i-carry-at-night\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:59:34","slug":"what-i-carry-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/what-i-carry-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"What I carry for a night under the stars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Night photography needs less gear than people think. It needs warm clothes and a lot of patience. This is what goes in my pack for a night on the ridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The list<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One full-frame camera and one fast wide lens, 20 mm at f\/1.8<\/li>\n\n<li>A heavy tripod, because wind is the enemy at night<\/li>\n\n<li>A headlamp with a red light, so my eyes stay used to the dark<\/li>\n\n<li>A lens heater strip and a spare battery for it<\/li>\n\n<li>A down jacket, a hat, and a second pair of gloves<\/li>\n\n<li>A thermos of tea and something sweet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/night-star-trails-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Circular star trails turning around the pole star above the tips of trees.\" class=\"wp-image-24\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/night-star-trails-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/night-star-trails-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/night-star-trails-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/night-star-trails-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/night-star-trails-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/night-star-trails-1280x853.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">After Dark, No. 5. Three hours with the shutter open.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What I always forget<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spare gloves, the car keys in the other jacket, and to turn off the screen light before the first exposure. After fourteen years, I still check all three twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most clear nights end before midnight. Bring the tea anyway.<\/p>\n<cite>Field notes, February 2025<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short list of what goes in the pack for a night shoot, and the three things I always forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kurato_page_runtime":0,"kurato_hide_header":false,"kurato_hide_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[52,54,53],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear","tag-after-dark","tag-kit","tag-night-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}