From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
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Practicing low-light landscape shooting
From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
Practicing low-light landscape shooting
All right. By now, you should know the drill. You come out in the dark, you stand around, you look for the shot, you frame the shot, you focus the shot, you think about your exposure. Now what I have got here now is this big railroad tie that has washed ashore. And way out over there are the cliffs and the sea and the rocks offshore, so I am thinking this railroad tie makes a good anchor for a shot. It's not that it's some kind of fascinating subject, but it's a place to hold the viewers eye while I frame a larger shot around this entire scene here. And I want some sky in the shot because I want some stars. So again, I'm going to start by framing my shot, and it's bright enough out here with the moon that I have ballparked it just by looking through the viewfinder, but I still can't quite see the edges because it's dark. I'm going to now take a shot as quickly as possible, just for the sake of visualizing here and hence checking my framing. So to get that as fast as possible, I am…
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