{"id":1805,"date":"2010-10-18T20:33:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T03:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2011-02-22T15:24:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T23:24:58","slug":"contre-jour-against-the-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"Contre-jour (Against the daylight)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like the term Contre-jour it sounds more sophisticated than <em>&#8220;Back lit&#8221;<\/em> but really it does refer to photographs taken where the primary light source is behind the subject but not necessarily directly behind it as I have done here.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-1807\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-3093.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1807\" title=\"Againstthelight-3093\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-3093.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-3093.jpg 532w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-3093-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-1806\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-3090.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1806\" title=\"Againstthelight-3090\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-3090.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-3090.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-3090-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>These images have me thinking about how often I use this technique, so I have just gone through some of my images to find other examples.\u00a0 This is by no means all of them but based on the number of images I had to look through to find them I can safely say I&#8217;m not being repititious when I do take an image like this.<span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-1809\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1809\" title=\"Againstthelight-007\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-007.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-007-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-007-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-1815\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-0989.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1815\" title=\"Againstthelight-0989\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-0989.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-0989.jpg 561w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-0989-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-1813\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-5105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1813\" title=\"Againstthelight-5105\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-5105.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-5105.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-5105-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-1814\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-0739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1814\" title=\"Againstthelight-0739\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-0739.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-0739.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-0739-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-1811\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1811\" title=\"Againstthelight-022\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-022.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-022-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 Ok I found another one that I really like.\u00a0 It&#8217;s funny because until I looked at it again I had forgotten how a friend and I had\u00a0 rushed ahead so that I could capture this and we would still be able to make it back before dark.\u00a0 Based on the date this was 19 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-1822\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1822\" title=\"Againstthelight-010\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-010.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Againstthelight-010-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the term Contre-jour it sounds more sophisticated than &#8220;Back lit&#8221; but really it does refer to photographs taken where the primary light source is behind the subject but not necessarily directly behind it as I have done here. These images have me thinking about how often I use this technique, so I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,1],"tags":[22,11,52,364],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition-photography","category-photography","category-uncategorized","tag-composition","tag-exposure","tag-pentax","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}