“Bracketing” is a technique where many photos of a scene are taken with slight variations in shutter speed, aperture settings and color adjustment in order to ensure getting the best possible shot. Bracketing is a great technique to use for holiday lights since the scene is not moving, and time can be taken to get several shots over a few minutes, adjusting the settings manually in between. Digital cameras technology also supports this technique since memory cards can usually hold dozens (or even hundreds) of images at a time. Examining the photos afterwards will allow you to detect and keep the best ones right away, and the others can be discarded.

Digital camera technology has made better photography possible in many ways; capturing more spectacular shots of holiday lights is just one example. Go put your digital camera to good use, and capture those holiday memories!