Christmas Lights Week — How to Photograph Them

It’s the Christmas season. All this week, Monday through Friday, I’ll be reblogging previous Christmas lights posts beginning today with how to photograph Christmas light decorations and the importance of white balance. Next week we’ll return to the Sydney-to-Seattle cruise tour.

Taking pictures of Christmas lights requires special care and preparation. Regular readers of my blog know that I don’t usually advocate taking the camera out of JPEG and shooting in your camera’s Raw format (especial...