4/15/2012

Tips for Better Silhouette Photos

By Roy Barker


Ever attempted you hand at silhouette photography? If you haven't yet, you need to truly make it a point to experiment with this system in the near future. I assure you, you will be stunned at all of the incredible photographs your camera can capture!?

Understanding Outline Photography

Silhouette photography has its own unique type of charm, puzzle and drama not found in any other sort of photography. While the main subjects in such stills may almost be featureless apart from their special outlines, the pictures picture a tale that no one 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.

The easy way to Capture Amazing Outline Pictures

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:

- Select an engaging subject. While anything can be used as a subject in silhouette photography, choosing subjects with powerful, engaging and highly recognizable shapes are reckoned to be the most ideal for this reason. Remember, there wouldn't be any colours, tones and textures that can help draw viewers ' eyes to your image so everything lies on selecting a subject with an engaging and distinct shape.

-Use proper lighting. You'll get the most satisfactory 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 simple and distinct. Silhouette photography is all about shapes so make sure you keep your subjects distinct and clearly distinguishable at all times. Don't try to fuse different subjects together since it will only confuse your spectators.

-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 pointed features, use your manual focus and pre-focus before you take a shot. You can try using a smaller aperture to increase your depth of field.

Now you know the way to take beautiful silhouette photographs, are you ready to take your camera out and start fiddling with this system? I am hoping you do!




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