One of the advantages of shooting when the sun is low on the horizon -- i.e. sunrise and sunset -- is that you have several different types of lighting to choose from depending on your angle to the subject. For example, you can take advantage of front light, side light, backlight, transillumination (where the sun comes through translucent objects like leaves and fabric), and rim light. The two photos I've attached here show the latter. Rim light (or edge lighting) helps to separate the subject from the background in a very artistic way, and it helps to give dimension to a picture. No matter what subject you might be shooting, lighting along the edge can dramatize an image and make it very appealing.
The photo of the two warriors was taken in a primitive area of India's northeast called Nagaland, and these young men are members of the Angami tribe. The red bellied woodpecker was taken through my office window as the bird came to feed. I used a 500mm telephoto plus a 1.4x teleconverter.
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