Off Camera – Contre Jour
Off Camera
A series of infrequent posts providing a little background on a single image.
Contre-jour (French for “against daylight”) is a photographic technique in which the camera is pointing directly toward a source of light.
– Wikipedia
I’m a big exponent of shooting into the light.
It’s one of those ‘rules’ that’s not supposed to be done in photography, but like any of the other ‘rules’, as long as you know them and are fully aware of them, then creatively breaking them is absolutely fine.
We’ll not always achieve desirable results, but that’s all part of the learning process.
