Dean and Kat Sunset Beach Shoot

For my assignment in Digital Photo I, I had to take photos of three different subjects. Kindly, my brother, Dean, and his girlfriend, Kat, offered to be one of my subjects. That evening, we went to the beach just as the sun was beginning to set. It was the start to a beautiful sunset, so I took out my camera and started shooting.
This was their first time modeling for me, so both of them were a bit confused on what to do, which resulted in a few humorous photographs. After I explained that all they had to do was act natural, they relaxed a bit and I was able to get some pretty great shots.
I positioned Dean and Kat on some rocks so that, with the sunset behind them, they would become silhouetted. Out of all the photos I took of them that evening, I think those came out the best. The two of them are just dark enough that you can't see every feature of their face, but just lit up enough to tell by some key features who they are.
I am really happy with how the photos I took of Dean and Kat came out. Shooting people for this assignment really helped me learn to use my camera quickly in order to get the perfect exposure almost all of the time. Not to mention shooting in RAW also helped out quite a bit in darkening their shadows and adding contrast to make the images more powerful.