I don't typically photograph my subjects backlit, primarily because I suffered from that horrible disease people acquire once they start shooting digital. You know, every possible detail must be captured with absolutely no clipping on either end, even if it means taking away all contrast, or you pathetically failed at producing the image.
Of course, it has been a decent time since I cured myself of that, but just never got around to exploring this type of lighting. I would like to do more of this exploration now.
Shot this project at sunrise last week with my P45+, single capture. Initially I framed it with the sun behind the tree, but about 60 seconds later, the sun moved into the image. I'm glad I waited for it; it adds much to the image.
(Of course another reason I never did this was because processing an image like this before C1 v8 was just not possible; it's amazing how much better Raw processing has become. And yes, I could have did a layer burn and preserved all detail without any noise when viewing at 200%, but that would have killed it.)