Create silhouettes by shooting into the sun. This may seem counter intuitive but the effect can be striking.
For this image I used the shutter priority mode (TV) and set the speed to 1/750 of a second. The aperture was f/4 which means that the background was softened (remember, a higher aperture number means a greater depth of field and more of the background will be in focus.) I also dropped the exposure compensation by a couple of points to avoid the brightness from the Sun saturating the rest of the sky.
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