When I think of a Silhouette, the first thing that comes to my mind is a James Bond movie! Well, if you remember the main title sequence of James Bond movies, they have mysterious visual elements that reflect each film’s theme showing silhouettes of the characters.
As you may be aware, silhouette photography is a type of creative photography where you hide your subject in the darkness, thereby creating a sense of mystery in your photographs.
Your subject could be a person, animal, bird, object, architecture or a landscape represented as a solid shape of a single colour – usually black – with a featureless interior; its edges matching the outline of the subject.
Silhouette images exude mystery, mood, emotion and drama; it kindles the viewer’s imagination to understand/interpret what story the photograph is trying to convey.
Pro tips:
Desert Silhouette
Camera Settings – Aperture: f/5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/4000 sec, ISO: 100
Sunset Silhouette
Camera Settings – Aperture: f/32, Shutter Speed: 1/100 sec, ISO: 100.
Blue Hour Silhouette
Camera Settings – Aperture: f/3.5, Shutter Speed: 1/50 sec, ISO 400
Rule of Thirds Composition was used in this image.
Golden Hour Silhouette
Camera Settings – Aperture: f/5, Shutter Speed: 1/250 sec, ISO 100, Exposure bias: -0.3 step, Metering Mode: Center Weighted Average
Bird Silhouette
Camera Settings – Aperture: f/5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/60 sec, ISO 3200
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Want to create mystery using the art of photography, then go for silhouette photography! And do share your amazing clicks with us in the comment box below.
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It’s human tendency to rush to different places to capture all the beauty that is there in the world. But, with experience – you learn that slowing down and being patient gets your creative juices flowing that rewards you with some amazing photographs.
As a photographer, you’re aware how light changes a scene; every place wears a different look at different times of the day.
You might be wanting to photograph your favourite place/landscape during different seasons of the year but, if you can’t travel that often – you can surely capture the beauty of the place on your trip by visiting it, the same day at short intervals or by photographing it from the window of your resort room – if you’ve got a good view.
Below 4 photographs depict how light conceals and reveals different elements of the same scene:
Image before sunrise
Image at sunrise
Image after sunrise
Image after sunset
For time lapse photography – you can either shoot a time lapse video from your DSLR Camera of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moving clouds or moving people on the street etc. You can also take a lot of photographs at short intervals and then create a time lapse video out of the photographs using a software.
Well, if you don’t have a DSLR Camera, you can shoot a Hyperlapse Video from your android smartphone (remember to keep your phone on a stand to avoid shake as you’ll be recording the video for several minutes). With Hyperlapse videos, you can show actions/movements that are happening at a normal/slow speed in the scene at a much faster speed.
Below is a hyperlapse video of moving people & moving clouds
Below is a sky timelapse/hyperlapse or clouds timelapse
We bring you ‘Jo & His Camera’ Comic Strips wherein a Magical Camera gives DSLR photography tutorials to Jo, an aspiring photographer.
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If you haven’t yet taken photographs of the same place at different times (time lapse photography) – do give it a try. And remember to share those photographs with us in the comment box below.
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