Monday, April 16, 2012

Tips for Better Silhouette Images

By Roy Barker


Have you ever tried you hand at silhouette photography? If you have not yet, you must actually make a point of it to try experimenting with this technique in the very near future. I promise you, you'll be shocked at all the overwhelming images your camera can capture!?

Understanding Outline Photography

Silhouette photography has its own unique brand of charm, mystery and drama not found in any other kind of photography. While the primary subjects in such photos may just about be featureless excepting their distinctive outlines, the photographs show a tale that nobody else can tell.

Silhouettes generally occur accidentally, such as when you are shooting at sunrise or nightfall and when something bright is behind your subject. Nonetheless you can use it deliberately to think up some exciting and totally breathtaking pictures.

How to Capture Fantastic Profile Images

If you want to know how you can come up with high quality photographs using this system, below is a little advice that can help you:

- Choose an interesting subject. While anything may be employed as a subject in silhouette photography, selecting subjects with robust, interesting and highly familiar shapes are known to be the most ideal for this purpose. Remember, there would not be any colors, tones and textures that may help draw spectators ' eyes to your image so everything lies on choosing a subject with a fascinating and distinct shape.

-Use proper lighting. You'll get the most impressive results from silhouette photography if there's more lighting in the background.

- Do not use your flash. It'll only devastate your shots. Frame it right. To get good stills, be sure to employ a plain, bright background.

- Keep it simplistic and distinct. Outline photography is all about shapes so take care you keep your subjects distinct and obviously familiar at all points. Do not try to fuse different subjects together since it'll only confuse your viewers.

-Trick your camera. Most electronic cameras are so smart that they are going to try to light up your subject even if you are deliberately underexposing it. To find a way around with this stricture, simply target your camera to the brightest part of your picture and push the shutter halfway down before turning it back to your original frame. If this does not work, try using the manual mode.

-Focus it right. To get additional sharp features, use your manual focus and pre-focus before you take a shot. You may try using a smaller aperture to raise your depth of field.

Now that you know how to take attractive profile photos, are you all set to take your camera out and start experimenting with this method? I hope you do!




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