Silhouettes guide 1 Short guide Shooting Silhouettes By Jason D Little ? PHOTZY COM CONTENTS ? ? Silhouettes P ? ? The Beauty of Silhouettes P ? ? Key Points to Shooting Great Silhouettes P Choose a Suitable Subject Set Up Your Lighting Pose Your Subject
Short guide Shooting Silhouettes By Jason D Little ? PHOTZY COM CONTENTS ? ? Silhouettes P ? ? The Beauty of Silhouettes P ? ? Key Points to Shooting Great Silhouettes P Choose a Suitable Subject Set Up Your Lighting Pose Your Subject and Frame the Shot Prepare Your Camera for the Shot Focus Post Processing Optional Tools ? ? Final Thoughts P ? ? Some Inspiration P Get Your FREE Photography Tutorials at www photzy com Silhouettes ? PHOTZY COM Silhouettes We spend an awful lot of time and anxious energy fretting over how to light our subjects speci ?cally we tend to fear shadows Hard shadows can ruin nearly any photograph Whether we ? re shooting portraits macros or products ?? we typically aim for soft even lighting The fact is however we all need a break from the norm we need to take advantage of opportunities to do things a di ?erent way Those beautifully lit portraits that we all seek to make are important they may even be the staple of your photographic repertoire But there is another way to think about lighting ?? a way that is perhaps counterintuitive but can be equally if not more evocative as any perfectly lit shot Portrait photographers know of Rembrandt lighting split lighting butter y lighting and all styles of lighting designed to light the front of the subject But what about backlighting Get Your FREE Photography Tutorials at www photzy com The Beauty of Silhouettes ? PHOTZY COM The Beauty of Silhouettes A silhouette that dark featureless subject outlined against a bright background ?? a photographic phenomenon created by backlighting a photographic phenomenon that is capable of conveying mood drama mystery and emotion in ways unmatched by more conventional portraiture Silhouettes are incredibly simple in form yet they possess a great deal of aesthetic and atmospheric power They impart that power to the viewer by giving us the freedom to further use our imagination as we interpret these images Fortunately silhouettes are also relatively easy to create The tips that follow will help you get started Get Your FREE Photography Tutorials at www photzy com Key Points to Shooting Great Silhouettes ? PHOTZY COM How to Photograph SilhouettesChoose a Suitable Subject - ??Suitable ? is admittedly a rather open-ended term indeed anything can be made into a silhouette but some simply work better than others Bold distinctly shaped forms separated from their surroundings tend to work best Set Up Your Lighting - There ? s actually nothing to set up here Your ash serves no use for this project in fact all that stu ? you learned previously in your photography education about how to light a subject is o ? the table The goal is to put the light completely behind your subject you don ? t want any light falling on their front side The very best way to go about this is to position your subject in front of a rising or setting sun
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