A passage through time

What I meant when I said you were my "neighbor" is that your blog appeared when I pushed "Next Blog." Your photos are wonderful so I felt lucky to have seen them. I left that comment as an appreciation.

Cheers!

I was about to echo Sudarshan but then I clicked on the image and saw the image in full glory. This KF photo is good, but you needed to overexpose a little. The background is burnt and will be burnt anyway (so just don't worry about it), but it's fascinating blue color would have come out beautifully.

Thanks guys.
Sudarshan, kousik answered your question. you can click on the picture to view the bigger one.
kousik, thanks for the suggestion, i was wondering why i was unable to see its eyes, and other details, will this overexposure rule hold good even if its backlit?
i hae seen in a couple of pictures you have mentioned +2EV. That sounded a bit high, but the picture was perfect :)

Srikanth, you judge the exposure by looking at the scene, the coverage of the subject, and the metering mode you're in. If a dark subject covers only the center circle in front of a light background, you know you need to overexpose (unless you're using spot metering). And of course, also depends on color of the subject too :-)

And sometimes you just need to be bold. You just need guts to under or over expose. I had underexposed this shot by -2ev, in an early morning shoot. Let me know your comments on a too much underexposure.

Many times, I use my own judgement than my fancy camera.

Backlits are different challanges. Sometimes you want backlit as they are, but sometimes you want some more details. You'll need to overexpose then, but remember you'll burn the outline in the process ...