Weekly Assignment: Turn High Contrast into a Colorful Silhouette

[PWS-Staff]

Creating colorful silhouettes is a lot of fun because you can reveal common subjects in a graphic and dramatic way. And making silhouettes with a camera is almost as much fun as the ones that you cut out of construction paper in grammar school. For this assignment, find an interesting shape and photograph it against a bright background. You can choose a sunset sky, a white wall, or any bright background -- just use your imagination.

From "Exposure," by Jeff Wignall

[steffan58]

I took this photo in my backyard just before the sun rose.

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[InspiringFotos]

I find my best silhouette pictures come out during the sunset hour. Here is a photo taken when I was at Pacific Beach in CA. I was trying to capture a sunset beach moment when 2 seagulls were flying in the sky. I feel that I capture the silhouette of the gulls as they were flying in the sky, but I like my saguaro catus silhouette better when I capture a AZ sunset like in the Lighting: Capter 7 assignment "Best Light for Your Landscape". This one was taken with my Canon.

Canon EOS Rebel T1i
f/11.0
1/250s
ISO 100
Focal Length 55.0 mm
White Balance - Auto
Metering Mode - Evaluative