I bet you have seen lots of shots like this.
Here is how I took this photo:
Nikon D700
Manual exposure
Exposure Time: 1 / 1999
Flash did not fire
FNumber: 1.8
Focal Length: 50
Focal Length In 35mm Film: 50
ISO: 2500
Lens Model: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
The most important thing is that it have to be shot in the late afternoon/evening, or really early morning. This is because the sun is quite low, or even behind the horizon, like on my photo.
You want the light come from behind the subject, so shoot it facing the sun.
The way I did it, is I set ISO 2500 and 1/2000 shutter speed, with a wide open aperture.
I If you can not set such high ISO, shoot earlier, when the Sun is above the horizon, so you can still have really fast shutter speed. You need fast shutter, otherwise the subject is gonna be blurred.
If you don't want to capture a fast moving subject, you don't have to use such high ISO and shutter speed, just make sure you expose the sky correctly, so everything else is underexposed.
Another trick is to have the camera close to the ground, so it looks like that they jump really high.
I set a 10 second timer, metered for the sky, focused on a spot on the ground then put the camera down in the grass. We ran to the spot and jumped just on time.
If you are not planning to take a photo of yourself, you have to leave out the timer part, obviously.
My original photo was a bit under exposed though, so I lightened it up in Photoshop Camera Raw, hence the quite visible grain.
Here are a couple of other examples. These are not my shots:
friedmanarchives.com
rolandwooster.com
flickr.com
flickr.com
shutterstock.com
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