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A big part of the answer is what are the capabilities of your camera? Can it shoot long exposures? Most point and shoot digital cameras will go down to several seconds, which may or may not be long enough. I recently took some photos on my modules at night. The in scene lighting did not provide enough illumination, so I bounced a 60 watt bulb off the ceiling. This provided some ambient lighting so much of the scene isn't a black hole. The microlights you refer to supply very little light. I have a cutaway building on the edge of a module in which I spent lots of time installing microlights - hiding the wiring, etc., only to find they provided almost no lighting. So I added a grain of rice lamp up in the trusses, and this provides enough lighting so the interior details can be seen. And the microlights can also still be seen. I shot my scenes with my Canon Digital Rebel, using f:22 for the maximum depth of field, and had the ISO speed set to 400. With the camera on aperture priority, this resulted in shutter speeds between 4 and 10 seconds, as determined by the camera meter. I used the self timer so as not to disturb the camera when pressing the shutter. The only other thing I did was to set the camera's white balance to tungsten lighting. One thing about digital cameras is that you can try different settings and see the results right away. Good luck! Bob Boudreau Canada
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