Silhouetes
Silhouette looks very striking. It is sharp colorful and convey strait message. That’s what is a good photograph is all about no?
So how would we do it?
I will use photos from one afternoon at “Drummer beach” is south Tel Aviv. It was cloudy day with strong sun which creates very difficult conditions for photography. I decided at that day, to take some silhouettes pictures.
The first one is from a circle of “Kapuera” dancers.
Usually I use these techniques:
- Measure from the brightest source in the picture. It has to be at least more than 5 stops than the light from the figures that create the silhouette. The background has to be at least 3 stops brighter.
- Open the aperture. You don’t need depth of field and you want that the silhouettes will be sharp and black so u need the aperture to be opened as possible.
- Wide angle lens. Or would I say a super wide lens. It creates more drama in the picture.
- Low angle. Take the photo from a low angle almost from the floor. Together with the wide angle lens your silhouettes become more live.
- Include sky in the picture. Especially when you can get cloudy and dramatic sky.
Post production for silhouette
- Sepia or other dominant color. I tend to use it a lot since silhouette images are usually mood photos. So, while using a dominant color you can emphasis the mood you wanted to crate.
- Contrast – contrast can create drama. Although I kept some of the original colors of the picture, while I contrast it the colors blow up a little.
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This entry was posted on Saturday, March 20th, 2010 at 12:18 am. It is filed under Photography tutorials and tagged with Aperture, Depth of field, How to, Photography toturials, silhouettes, Wide-angle lens.
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