Classic examples to explain how photographers shoot silhouette in weak light

Use silhouette of a tree to show a vivid landscape.

Sometimes , even the most unfavorable scenario can also shoot good photos as landscape photography expert Simon Butterworth (Simon Butterworth) said : "When I shot this reflection of flooded trees , the sky is already quite dark and I can only seize the opportunity to take it quickly, you must try more in shooting because you never know what will happen. "

Simon added: "This picture of the trick is to make the subject appear in the sunset behind , although everything around dark, but the trees behind the horizon is bright and this method also can make the subject in the backdrop of the night sky seemed clearer to shoot clean, vivid photographs . "

Shooting Tips

Such photographs taken when the exposure time as long as possible , not only to make the water blur , but also let the clouds move has become blurred . Here Simon used the aperture f / 8 and ISO 50, the exposure time of up to 314 seconds .

Although this scenario somewhat dark, but when the sunset sky still brighter than the foreground . In this photo , Simon took a medium gray gradient lens , in order to avoid overexposed sky , which can show more surface detail.Or trying photo editing software to edit the exposure of the photo.

Since the exposure time is up to 5 minutes, so a few more times before shooting the best of the camera 's sensitivity to the highest and the maximum aperture. As long as you see the correct exposure histogram , you can lower the sensitivity and the aperture one by one while increase the exposure time.