Better Available Light Digital Photography : How to Make the Most of Your Night and Low-light Shots

Here are two examples of the way nature can be used as your foreground interest. Part of Barry’s preparation
to teach a photo graphy workshop for Shutterbug magazine at Arches National Park included arriving a day
early to physically scout out good locations for the class to visit and photograph. Everyone’s heard about
those “lucky shots” but we believe that we make our own luck. In this case, the luck was simply Barry’s
scouting the day before and his willingness to visit the park in the wee hours before the workshop began. He’d
seen Balanced Rock and knew it was the perfect rock formation for a sunrise silhouette. He was able to move
quickly between two locations, using two different lenses—an extreme wide angle for the tree branch fore-
ground and a telephoto for the tighter shot of the rock itself. Look for a third image of this well-known rock
formation in Chapter 6. © 2007 Barry Staver.