Friday, February 20, 2009

Silhouette

I have some silhouette photos to share with you all. It's not that difficult to shoot this type of images. Just follow these few steps.

1. You need subject with strong outline and it's easy to recognise just by its shape.

2. A strong light source coming from the back of your subject.

3. Make sure silhouette subject does not overlap with each other.

4. Expose for the second brightest part of the scene. For example in photo A, i took a exposure reading from the area to the left of the sun and set my aperture and shutter-speed accordingly.

Photo A.


Photo B.

Photo C.


Photo C is actually a double exposure of the moon and a toy deer. Nonetheless, it's still a silhouette image.

2 comments:

  1. what about a sunset with a clearly visible foreground and not a silhoutte? Do you know how to do that? Izit need two times exposure?

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  2. Not really sure what you mean. Do you have any sample which i can refer to?

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