When dealing with situations in which the camera's (or monitor's) dynamic range isn't enough (such as bright background dark foreground), there are three ways you can proceed. (I'm not counting graduated neutral density filters since they won't help when dealing with complex shapes.)



- You can brighten up the dark area with more artificial light.

- You can darken the bright area with the use of fine nets.

- Or you can take multiple shots with different exposures and combine them to produce one image.



Since I don't have the equipment for the first two options, I resort to the last one.

In this example, the foreground is way too dark and the background is way to bright to fit them both into the range of the equipment.



I used enfuse software to "fuse" the bracketed images together.



Taken on a tripod with a 2-second delay. (You really need to make sure your model stays still for this.)



(P.S. F/16 was needed for depth of field, so that the background would show. Consequently, the shutter speed had to be low.)

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