>>4221981The thing about your photo is, even the sky is underexposed. So even if the goal was to protect the highlights, the shutter speed was too fast even for that.
The photo has no EXIF, so no idea what settings were used, but to underexpose that badly in the daytime probably involves Manual mode. People put filters on their cameras to get shit this dark, when they want to do long exposures in the daytime.
It's also not clear what kind of camera took this, if it was DSLR or mirrorless, were you using OVF (optical viewfinder) or EVF (electronic viewfinder), and if using EVF was the camera automatically brightening it while you could composed the photo instead of showing you what it was actually going to look like (I have no idea which mirrorless cameras do this, as I don't own any, but some DSLRs do it by default when using the back LCD for live view shooting). I have to assume the later, and you would not have bothered to snap the shutter had you already been able to see it was going to come out all black.
If you're going to play around in Manual like that, I suggest checking the histogram after every shot, and seeing what each adjustment you make does to the exposure.
It's no substitute for reading up on the exposure triangle but at least it's realtime feedback.
