One environment I frequently find myself photographing in is lighting situations where one aspect is much brighter or much darker than another. I have a number of shots that extremely overexposed and underexposed. The ones that do come out tend to be either washed out (overexposed) or grainy (underexposed). I can't seem to get right mix.
In this shot I don't care so much that the ground is as black as it appears even if it wasn't this dark in person. The blackness in this case I think enhances the rays of the sun. I'm making a lot of progress with the triangle with photos needing few and few adjustments when converting from RAW but this kind of lighting seems to escape me. I used a 50mm prime here.
Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
Exposure: 0.00
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire