Silhouette, my favorite kind of photographic technique. Silhouette removes some details which are not essential to express the beauty of shapes, and is very easy to take.
There is only one rule in taking silhouette shots - metering. You need to make sure that your are metering at the background, which should be either a source of light or at least with more light than the subject.
How to implement this? 2 simple steps
(1) set metering mode to spot metering mode
(2) meter at the specified AF spot (default AF spot would be the center one), and the AF spot should be put at the light background.
By doing so, metering would be done according to the background and ignore the rest of the picture. Thus, the background is sharp and the subject is very dark, and the silhouette shot is done!
(1) set metering mode to spot metering mode
(2) meter at the specified AF spot (default AF spot would be the center one), and the AF spot should be put at the light background.
By doing so, metering would be done according to the background and ignore the rest of the picture. Thus, the background is sharp and the subject is very dark, and the silhouette shot is done!
Pictures:
Top left: Tō-ji 東寺, Kyoto
Top right: Trees, Kyoto
Bottom: Byōdō-in 平等院, Uji
Top left: Tō-ji 東寺, Kyoto
Top right: Trees, Kyoto
Bottom: Byōdō-in 平等院, Uji
the second one is really cooooooool
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