Digital Camera Fiend - A Camera Review

Originally uploaded by down_the_rabbit_hole. Taken with a Canon EOS 30D.

Night shots can present extremely difficult photographic conditions. The dark night when this photo was taken in Jervis Bay, Australia posed quite a challenge, yet the photographer managed to capture a breathtaking shot.

“A lucky moment, in that all the elements were there, but tricky in putting them together because it was so dark I couldn’t see anything through the viewfinder,” the photographer said. “Added to this I was on a suburban street so I had to time the shots in between car headlights destroying the silhouettes of the trees.”

The silver reflection from the moon contrasts nicely with the tree silhouettes and inky sky.

The composition might be stronger if the tree branches didn’t partially obstruct the moon, but as the photographer noted, stepping to the side to avoid the obstruction would have ruined the symmetry of the photo.