How to do silhouette photography

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Silhouette photography is one of the creative ways to appreciate the natural phenomenon of the world. For those who never heard about this, don’t worry. I will briefly explain what it is and how to do it. Silhouette photography is actually the kind of photo that has dark look on the subject and with light from the back of the subject that help to visualize the subject shape. Are this already confused you? Afraid not, just look at this photo. You will have the idea how the silhouette actually looked.

First thing off, before you start shoot silhouette, find a strong subject. Why? Is it important. Yes, it is. Find the subject that can convey story through it and can really show the motive to the audience. For me I like to have people as my subject. Why? Because when people as my subject its really help the story come into the audience. To help the photo stand more from others, is to find a nice location and time. As example, shoot it at golden hour. It’s up to you whether you want it during sunrise or sunset.

Now I will touch a little bit on how to get this done. The vital rule before you shoot silhouette is you need to have source of light behind your subject. At this time, we will appreciate the backlight more than before. If you are happened to shoot at the beach, you can direct your subject to stand like they are looking to the sea, or you can ask them to stand perpendicular to the camera. This will make your subject look even better because we can see the subject feeling like they are smiling, have forward vision, being humble or anything else.

For the camera setting, you need to lower down your ISO. This is because we just want to see the subject shape while ignore the details. For shutter speed, you need to take it to the higher number to help the scene look even more darker and to have the shape really stand more. When it’s come to aperture, I would prefer between f4-f5.6. This because I want to keep the background to stay in focus as well as the subject. If this setting not really help you, you can adjust the shutter speed or the aperture until you get the perfect look.

I think that’s wrap up for this entry.

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