Dusk to Dawn, 2nd Edition, 2nd Edition

7 Advanced Techniques for Night Landscapes

The techniques you’ve learned in the previous chapters will enable you to make excellent images of the night sky. In this chapter I’m going to show you how to take your images still further. I’ll talk about light painting, the technique of adding light to the foreground with flashlights, flash units, and flat-panel LED lights. Adding light to the foreground can create a unique look and simplify processing by allowing you to capture all the detail you want in a single frame. I’ll provide detailed instructions for focus stacking, a technique that allows you to create tremendous depth of field by shooting multiple frames of the same subject with different points of focus, then combining the images ...