Digital Camera - Ken Gilbert
Digital Camera - Ken Gilbert
Digital Camera - Ken Gilbert
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photo teChniques<br />
09 Here<br />
comes<br />
the sun<br />
Go on,break therules…<br />
Forget old photography chestnuts like ‘never shoot<br />
into the sun’, you can get some great effects by<br />
taking advantage of strong summer sunshine.<br />
Agreat place to startiscontre-jour (‘against daylight’),<br />
where you point directly to an object against the sun in<br />
order to backlightit. This is agreat silhouette technique,<br />
especially if you isolate the sun’s rays coming through<br />
a tree, for example. Or why not mix strong sunlight with<br />
fill-in flash, as Brett Harkness did with this image.<br />
Get started today…<br />
* Contre-jour is all about positioning – move around<br />
so you get in the right place in relation to the sun.<br />
* Under-expose forcontre-jour,because the camera’s<br />
metering could get fooled by over-bright areas.<br />
* Try using a studio light off camera when shooting a<br />
model against bright sunlight, and again, under-expose.<br />
* Don’t point your SLR straight at strong sunlight with<br />
nothing in the way. It’s bad for your eyes and camera.<br />
* Keep an eye out for strongly defined shapes and<br />
patterns when shooting silhouettes.<br />
10things<br />
…to try right now<br />
Forget old chestnutslike‘never<br />
shootintothe sun’.Try isolating<br />
rays coming through a tree Brett Harkness<br />
<strong>Digital</strong><strong>Camera</strong> July2010<br />
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