How was the silhouette photo taken?

How to take silhouette photos: find the right shooting time, choose the right background and capture the typical image.

1, find the shooting time.

About 30 minutes before and after sunrise and sunset is the best time to shoot silhouettes. At this time, the light is soft, and the sky is dyed in different colors by rosy clouds, which will capture beautiful silhouette and environment. It should be noted that the illumination angle of the sun must meet the expected shooting effect, so that the camera and the subject can form the best height difference.

Step 2 choose a good background

The silhouette subject under backlight is usually dark and has no details, so it is easier to highlight the subject by choosing a simple background. If the background elements are complex, it is easy to cause bad overlap with the main body and weaken its expressive force. Photographers can choose relatively empty scenes such as seaside and grassland, and cooperate with low-angle back shooting to make the silhouette more vivid.

3, capture the typical image

Silhouette needs a prominent image, and when shooting, we should look for the angle that highlights the outline and curve of the subject to enhance the visual expression of the picture. When taking a silhouette of a character, the photographer had better choose a part with good curve and obvious outline, such as the outline of the nose and mouth or the outline of body movements. Try to avoid the phenomenon of overlapping characters, too much overlap will lead to visual confusion.

The historical development of silhouette photos;

With the development of optics for centuries, the invention of pinhole camera provides a good opportunity for the appearance of the first photo in the world. 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the world's first picture at home, entitled "The scenery outside the window of Legolas". This photo shows the courtyard and outhouse outside the window from the upstairs of the author's house.

The shooting method is exposed on the asphalt metal plate in the pinhole camera. A photograph of a person or thing made by exposing glossy paper to a photographic negative and then developing and fixing it. In the information age, many photos are preserved in digital form. With the rapid development of digital cameras, the number of traditional cameras using film is gradually decreasing.

In terms of content and theme, what is in the picture, what it represents, what it represents from that angle, what the author thinks and what it was at that time (in short, it will rise to a high level). Then, from the grasp of the use of light and shadow in the photo itself, it explains the problems of light and shade, contrast, foil, the position of the theme scene in the picture, distance and so on.