From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
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Dynamic range considerations
From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
Dynamic range considerations
Very often, when you're shooting in extremely low light, like nighttime, you find yourself encountering high-dynamic-range situations, and that's what we have got here right now. They seem a little counterintuitive because we tend to think of high dynamic range as really bright skies, and maybe dark foregrounds and things like that, but we've got a variation on that. We've got this bright street light up here, this point light source, and we've got all this dark shadow around it. Now, what I want to do is bring some detail out of that dark driveway. But as I do that, I am going to blow that light out more. It's going to get bigger and bigger in the frame. This is very often something you're going to encounter in low light or at night- time, and there are some things you can do to manage it. First of all, you an accept that seeing big blown out lights like that is just part of the aesthetic of night shooting. It's part of the aesthetic of low-light photography, and personally, I like…
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