Night Photography should probably be called Dusk photography.  Take your favourite night photo.  If there is any blue in the sky then it was probably shot just after sunset.  This is a period of time that photographers sometimes refer to as the blue hour (though it may not last that long) and is a period of time where there is still enough ambient light for the

camera to pick out some detail and tolerable shutter speeds.

As the blue hour draws to the close the LARP photographer will find themselves shooting at higher and higher ISO and their options for continuing are roughly as follows.

Regardless of whether you have a photographer or not, it is probably good discipline to compare your LARP schedule to the local sunrise and sunset times and use it to inform your scene-making plans.  If your larp is partly set outdoors your event schedule is going to be affect by the hours of the day where there is light outside.  A forest-based fetch quest that seems easy by day, could easily become very hazardous at night if there aren’t enough lanterns to share.

Organisers, be aware that your photographers are only as productive as the available light allows.  If you have zero budget for lighting and are dependent on the sun, the time of year you run your game will strongly influence how productive your photographer is going to be.

Do you want to have a campfire? Do you want a scene with fireworks? Are you going to have a fire juggler ?   It’s going to look a lot better if you stage it just after sunset. When you schedule your cool scene at dusk, your photographer will reward you with shots like this: