Lighting Your Foreground Landscape, Method 2
Another popular method of displaying your foreground is to “light paint” it (we looked at this earlier in the Long Exposures chapter, as well). This is easier than it sounds, but it might take you a few tries until you come up with a scene that is lit the way you want it. The basic idea here is to use a small, handheld LED flashlight, and while your shutter is open on your camera that is shooting the stars, you’re going to “paint” with that light over a close rock formation, or foreground area, or tree, etc. You don’t have to paint very long, usually just a few seconds, but enough to light those foreground ...
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