THE CHALLENGE

What do you do when confronted with a gorgeous sunset over a beautiful landscape? If you expose for the brighter sky, the landscape in the foreground will go excessively dark. If you expose for the landscape, the sky will be overexposed and lose its beautiful colors. Exposure 101 states that no camera on the market today can record within a single exposure the vast range of light and dark that exists in a backlit scene. In the old days, photographers had to “grin and bear it,” overexposing the backlight to bring up the foreground. Now, however, there is an easy solution.