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When discussing the light and shadow of photography and the outline of objects, there is a special and interesting shooting technique, that is, silhouette shooting.

Silhouette shooting, simply understood, is to dim the brightness of the subject during shooting, making it appear in a state of shadow, and contrast it with the bright background to highlight the contrast and outline.

The silhouette does not require how good-looking the model is, nor does it require superb shooting skills, but it can well show a special sense of texture and atmosphere, which is very practical.

So today, let's share with you how to take a good silhouette photo:

1. Shooting conditions generally speaking, the silhouette shooting needs backlight or side backlight, because this can ensure that the main body is darkened and the background will not be overexposed.

Whether it is the natural backlight environment or the backlight scene under the artificial light source environment, it is more suitable for silhouette shooting, such as the light at sunrise and sunset, the direct light on the stage and so on.

two。 After understanding the principle of silhouette, the shooting technology is also easy to understand. Here are a few details to share with you:

(1) in the backlight environment, autofocus is sometimes inaccurate. We can use manual focusing to assist us, and it is not necessary to take a clear picture of the silhouette. if we do not pursue the outline, the blurred silhouette will also have a different sense of atmosphere.

(2) in fact, photometry is a very important point in shooting silhouettes. If the bright background is in a normal exposure state, then the subject will naturally be darkened.

However, one of the problems we may encounter is background overexposure. if this problem occurs, it may be that the photometry is not accurate. We can try to measure the light in the bright part of the background when shooting, such as in the sunset environment. You can measure light on the bright sky near the sunset, so as to prevent the background from being overexposed.

(3) other parameters problems other parameters such as aperture and shutter speed can be set according to personal preferences, other people's shooting parameters have no reference significance, let alone need to apply.

3. If you master the above methods for details, there will be no problem with taking silhouette photos. Here are some detailed skills to improve silhouette shooting techniques:

(1) when the glare is taken in the backlight environment, it sometimes produces glare, which affects the appearance of the photo. At this time, we can change the angle and change the backlight to the side backlight to alleviate the glare problem.

The use of sunshades or manual shading can also avoid glare problems to some extent.

The emergence of large-scale glare may also be related to the uv mirror, the general quality of the uv lens in addition to the lens has a certain protective effect, other aspects of almost all side effects, in unnecessary environment, we can take off the uv lens to shoot.

(2) when the main body of the outline is in the shadow state, the outline is particularly important, especially for the figure silhouette, the outline is an important content output point.

When we shoot contours, on the one hand, we should be predictive, using snapshots to capture the best moments, such as when shooting bird silhouettes, we can capture the moment of take-off.

On the other hand, wait for the best shooting time, wait for the subject to move to the best position, or when there is a special action, complete the shooting.

(3) if there is only a dry outline in the scene, although concise, it may not be attractive enough, we can try to include other interesting elements into the scene when shooting silhouettes.

Such as adding a suitable foreground to the silhouette subject

Match with architecture, plants, etc.

When shooting the silhouette of the characters, we can let the characters hold objects to highlight the sense of interaction and express the special meaning.

(4) the telephoto lens is very suitable for silhouette shooting, the special sense of space compression is very suitable for shaping the sense of atmosphere, and it is easy to form a simple composition, and the silhouettes of figures, trees and buildings are all suitable for shooting with telephoto lenses.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: play some Photography (ID:wakexiao), by AGER

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