To create a strong semi-silhouette of this Karo tribesman at sunrise, I first scouted the right location and found a place where I could shoot from below ground level. Then, through my interpreter, I asked the young man to position himself in such a way that his shape looked good graphically. I asked him to hold his stick at a diagonal, to look to my left to define his profile against the sky, and to turn his right foot out. This attention to detail made all the difference. I then asked him to be perfectly still and did a 5-frame HDR sequence, handheld (handheld HDR images can only be done with a wide angle lens; telephotos show too much movement to align the frames). I took this with a 24-105mm wide angle lens set to 24mm, and I used f/16 to make sure both the foreground and the background were sharp. The ISO was 640.
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