NyghtFalcon

NyghtFalcon Photography was founded in January, 2003. The group's signature style includes a number key elements – the unusual sense of composition, strong shadows and rich colors, detailed texture and intense emotion.

Discover in this video testimonial how DxO FilmPack became an absolutely central part of the entire NyghtFalcon style.

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"When I have the camera in my hand, there is nothing else. There is no noise. There is no distraction, there is only the moment."

"I began to realize, particularly in the fall of 2002 that there was a flatness, a lack of color, a lack of depth, a lack of texture. Something was missing. ... I couldn’t find any of that in the photographs that I was creating at the time."

"I had also been dramatically influenced by the likes of George Hurrell, Avedon, Eugene Smith, Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, in particular with his color photography, and I couldn’t get it that way. My work just never quite approached that."

"It was always about two things, the quality of the image and the emotional impact of the image."

"So when FilmPack was released. ... I ran into a situation. I had a shoot with a model. The photographs were unbelievably emotionally powerful, but because we were shooting in a burned out house, I had very little control of the light. ... Adjusting the film type not only brought back the technical detail, but it allowed me to expose the emotion that was there in that shoot in a way I had never been able to do before."

"We began to research the films that were included, as I went back and studied the photographers who had so influenced me as a child, I began to realize that every film had a very specific optical and visual experience that was coupled to a very primal emotional experience."

"And I think in the end. The more that we worked with Film Pack and the more that we studied film, the more radically aware we became of how important the emotional dimension of film was."

"If one were, for example, to take a Kodak Ektachrome and compare it to an Ilford or a Fuji Velvia, it becomes very clear that the visual properties are quite different."

"FilmPack became an absolutely central part not only of how we use DxO, but central to the entire NyghtFalcon style."