Black

Fancy a silhouette? First you need to take control of your camera metering, so that it ignores the large black object that you carefully placed in the foreground, next compose and shoot. Here's an example from Salzberg.



It doesn't have to be a small object nearby, it could be as big as Salisbury Cathedral, if the lighting is right..



This lone tree made a suitable subject against the Watership Down skyline one Winter a few years ago. Surely a case of less is more.



This was a late night shot at dusk in the Dales. It was a case of applying enough exposure compensation to force the foreground to black and bring out the colours in the sky.


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