It's a beautiful day for exploring Fort Macon - a bright sunny sky, light winds, an hour before the first school bus arrives. But how to handle the dark places; the places that make this old masonry fort so enticing?

Relying on the camera's automatic setting produces a picture like this: while the interior shows up nicely, the exterior is blown out with most detail and color lost to overexposure.

It's a beautiful day for exploring Fort Macon - a bright sunny sky, light winds, an hour before the first school bus arrives. But how to handle the dark places; the places that make this old masonry fort so enticing?

Relying on the camera's automatic setting produces a picture like this: while the interior shows up nicely, the exterior is blown out with most detail and color lost to overexposure.