TAG: photographing elements

When Lightning Strikes…

by Joseph Meehan

So how to expose for lightning? A bolt of lightning is, obviously, extremely bright, particularly if it is close and particularly compared to nighttime ambient light levels. So setting the correct exposure for the night sky or surroundings and waiting for a lightning strike will result in a very overexposed image, due to the relative…

Landscape Photography: Expressions in Fog & Mist (Part II)

by Joseph Meehan

One of the most dramatic forms of light in a landscape setting occurs when rays of light resembling sunbeams come streaming through breaks in the clouds early or late in the day. These are crepuscular rays and certain foggy conditions can also produce this effect since fog and mist are basically earth bound clouds. Crepuscular …

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