There's a certain amount of standard advice for shooting night photography. One of them is to shoot either Fujichrome 64T or Kodak Ektachrome 160T for film. Both films are well-behaved and well-characterized tungsten balanced slide film. With slide film, you don't need to worry about automatic machine corrections like you do with print films, so that's easy to understand. Both films have about as reasonable figures for long-exposure reciprocity as you'll find in a manufacturer datasheet.
But, tungsten color balance? Why do most night photographers shoot using tungsten color balanced film, or the tungsten setting on their digital SLRs?

A set of pointers on how to get a good long-exposure night shot using film cameras without wasting tons of film.

I've come to realize that my tripod needs to be replaced. Like, right now...

A review of the slide films available in 2008.

Night landscape photography is astonishingly peaceful and meditative.

The San Mateo Bridge. While we were talking, Emily was taking a bunch of pictures. I only took one. I carefully evaluated metering and decided this was really the picture I wanted to take.

Dona lightpainted with South Bay as the backdrop.

Ella against the backdrop of a city, in the reeds, with stars

red streamers with four clones of a model and a night backdrop

The San Francisco Bay Bridge at night, taken from the Embarcadero.

A pier stretching off into the dark sky

The rocky beach in Pescadero at night

The moon and the buildings along the Embarcadero at night, with a cloudy sky

The CA-85 highway at night.

Some rocks in the water along a beach in Half Moon Bay at night.