Photography school: Contre-jour
July 23rd, 2007 Posted in Photography School, All | 3 Comments »
In a recent post, I only mentioned this way of taking pictures by “Against daylight“ method popularly known as Contre-jour. The main condition to achieve this is to have a direct source of light, whether it is a sun or other artificial way of lightning and without any of those it isn’t possible to make these photos. Pointing a camera directly to the source of light, camera with program mode usually goes “mad” and on a display you don’t see much because those conditions aren’t defined in camera’s memory so the shutter speed is shortened to minimum and the aperture is closed to maximum so it is adjusted to take a
good picture only of blue sky no matter if there is any object between camera and the source of light. In other words, the lighting instrument and the viewer are facing towards each other, with the subject in between. The object looses all the details and becomes black as night and that is our main aim. Water girl, same as the Sunset girl, are taken with Olympus C-8080, and manual adjustments by which the shutter speed is set to 1/4000 sec, and the aperture set to f/8. I’m sure that even with a program mode you could achieve almost same result. I hope you wont be lazy, so go out and put your cameras to the test!
