"In most situations you can't choose your light, and have to use what's available. Situations with extreme differences in light-intensity are a little problematic even for modern digital cameras. Most digital cameras have a lower dynamic range than analog film, and both won't even get close to the range of the human eye. Especially night shots are sometimes difficult to handle. With several different exposures of the same scenario, you can handle that problem with a procedure called DRI ("Dynamic Range Increase"). There are a several DRI-guides available in the net, one of them will be found below."Oh wow, I wish I had found this sooner. I am going to have to bookmark this permanently because situations with extremely differing lighting conditions present themselves quite often and I almost always simply went with the decreasing the shutter speed option. With DRI (Dynamic Range Increase), I think I might be able to take some awesome shots.