Apo­lo­gies for slowly loos­ing track of what I’ve men­tioned so far and what not, but in case I’m repeat­ing myself — “Repe­ti­tion is the mother of all learn­ing”, or so it goes, right?

Any­way, here’s a lovely autumny shot from last year. It’s main fea­ture; Side-​light, also known as “rim light” (but I think the lat­ter term is more used in por­trait­ure).

In this present pic­ture, the won­der­ful light­ing really brings out the col­ours in the leafs, which also con­trast beau­ti­fully against the blue sky (remem­ber, blue and orange are com­pli­ment­ary col­ours…) and the dark shad­ows behind the church.

Quite a lot of fill light went into this (to bring out the details in the cathed­ral too which oth­er­wise would have been left almost black due to the high con­trast in the scene) — all major photo edit­ing applic­a­tions allow you to do this. How­ever, as I keep say­ing, you have sig­ni­fic­antly more lee­way for such manip­u­la­tions if you shoot RAW.