Silhouette
Your challenge is to capture three different a silhouettes:
1. Self portrait silhouette taken in class and created with Photoshop (be careful, these are addictive!)
2. One using backlighting (Object or portrait) silhouette
3. A version of David Allen Reeves' silhouette work- create a scene from a book or song
A silhouette is:
A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is basically featureless, and the whole is typically presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all. The silhouette differs from an outline which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic media. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silhouette
What we are looking for is a subject that is completely black in photograph. This may sound easy, but with many automatic cameras it can be tricky. If we take a silhouette of a building for example it is important to direct your camera to expose for the sky and not the building. This can be done manually or by pointing your camera at the lightest part of the image (sky) and holding the shutter button down halfway. Then pan back to crop the scene as you want it to look while keeping the shutter button pressed down halfway. Then click.
If the lightest part of the image is properly exposed, it makes any object in shadow appear completely black: and there's your silhouette. When editing the picture before turning it in you can play with contrast and exposure in Photoshop to make sure you are achieving a rich black.
http://davidallenreeves.tumblr.com/
article about david allen reeve's work
Your challenge is to capture three different a silhouettes:
1. Self portrait silhouette taken in class and created with Photoshop (be careful, these are addictive!)
2. One using backlighting (Object or portrait) silhouette
3. A version of David Allen Reeves' silhouette work- create a scene from a book or song
A silhouette is:
A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is basically featureless, and the whole is typically presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all. The silhouette differs from an outline which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic media. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silhouette
What we are looking for is a subject that is completely black in photograph. This may sound easy, but with many automatic cameras it can be tricky. If we take a silhouette of a building for example it is important to direct your camera to expose for the sky and not the building. This can be done manually or by pointing your camera at the lightest part of the image (sky) and holding the shutter button down halfway. Then pan back to crop the scene as you want it to look while keeping the shutter button pressed down halfway. Then click.
If the lightest part of the image is properly exposed, it makes any object in shadow appear completely black: and there's your silhouette. When editing the picture before turning it in you can play with contrast and exposure in Photoshop to make sure you are achieving a rich black.
http://davidallenreeves.tumblr.com/
article about david allen reeve's work
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