Silhouette

Another one from the back catalog today, I need to go get a new sensor cleaning brush for my camera so I didn't take any photos yesterday as I didn't want the dust I could see to become "welded" to the sensor. This is a really easy technique to produce great silhouettes of, well whatever your shooting, buildings, animals or people are all good subjects. The key is metering from the sky, as the sky is often a lot brighter relative to the land you will usually get a very high shutter speed such as 1/2000, this will expose the sky correctly but leave the subject black. If you have an exposure lock button (a * on canons) focus on the sky behind your subject, press exposure lock and then refocus your shot on the subject, you usually get about 10 seconds before the exposure lock turns off, take the shot and Roberts your fathers brother.