From the course: Silhouette Photography: Shooting and Post Processing
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From the course: Silhouette Photography: Shooting and Post Processing
Get the shot
- [Female Instructor] Get the shot. Silhouettes are awesome. They're important as they will teach us how to see things in a new way and convey emotions solely through posing and composition. The very first step is to position ourselves and our subjects to create a silhouette. You could almost use a string to pull a straight line from the light, to the subject, to our camera. Which, by the way, is completely opposite of how we'd want to expose a normal photograph which relies on light reflecting off our subject and bouncing back into our camera to get a good exposure. However the engineers design all cameras, even the simplest point-and-shoot to the most advanced to expose the subject in the picture in the best light possible. The camera wants to meter to expose the subject with a good range of light and dark. But, you know, in silhouettes we want the subject to be dark. The camera on auto doesn't understand our intention so we'll have to take it into our own hands. But don't worry, it…
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