The phrase "arranging a shot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to photography, filmmaking, or any situation where a visual composition is being planned or set up.
Example: "The director spent hours arranging a shot to capture the perfect lighting and angle."
Alternatives: "setting up a shot" or "composing a shot".
Johnson dribbled down the court but could not arrange a clean shot attempt.
For the folk painter Grandma Moses he arranged a homey shot, posing her in her Victorian parlor like the woman in "Whistler's Mother". The fashion photographer Cecil Beaton was captured, beautifully dressed, in the salon of his English country house.
As a photographer arranges a final shot outside the dressing room, a publicist materializes with an edict: Clear the stairwell so his fellow Tony nominee Liev Schreiber (Mr. Alda is also competing against his cast mate Gordon Clapp) can ascend the steps to his green room.
For some shots, like pictures of objects in motion or live events, this may be impossible, but for stationary subjects, there's no reason not to take your time and arrange an interesting shot.
When he arranges himself for a shot, it is like watching a heron preparing to catch a fish.
To capture these images requires a lens with a shallow depth of field such as a macro or telephoto lens and perfectly arranging the shot so only the right colors shine through.
In this regard, the artfully arranged opening shot — a close-up of a military boot resting on the bloodied face of a man whose head is next to a corpse's feet — is characteristically visually arresting and empty.
Composition is how you arrange a picture and where you take the shot.
Everything on this particular night was carefully curated rather than frantic outbursts of flash; people were swapping Instagram handles and carefully arranging each shot.
