What are the characteristics and shooting points of silhouette effect?

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Silhouette photos only show the outline of the object, that is, people, buildings, mountains and trees in the photos only show their dark outline shapes, and do not need to show their detailed shadow levels, which is similar to the image of people cut out by scissors. Silhouette photos can highlight the subject and show the shape and posture of the characters.

Silhouette should be shot in a bright background, and the silhouette subject should be shot in a close shot or a middle shot, which is not suitable for shooting in a long shot. The shooting location can be indoor or outdoor.

You can use natural light or lighting to shoot silhouettes indoors. Backlight should be used when shooting to show the outline. Indoor natural light shooting, you can use window light. The method is to open the window, cover the window frame with white cloth, and avoid the window edge or other outdoor scenery. The camera is facing the window, and people stand between the window and the camera, using silhouette. Take the brightness of the white cloth outside the window as the exposure basis. If people's exposure is slightly poor, you can take a silhouette photo. You can also use the white wall in the room, or hang a white cloth sheet on the wall, and the light shines on the background, or use the light to shine from the back of the sheet. People stand between the camera and the film and expose according to the brightness of the background. You can also take a silhouette photo.

Shooting outdoors, preferably in the early morning and evening, where the sunlight is low, the subject can block the sunlight to form a silhouette. Outdoor shooting can use the sky, water, sea of clouds and glow as the background, or hang a piece of white cloth as the background. Exposure should be based on the brightness of a bright background. In order to get a good silhouette, the subject should wear dark clothes and take a silhouette with a simple background. It is important to note that the shadow of the background scene cannot overlap with the subject.

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With the wide application of digital photography in various fields, various photography skills and techniques have begun to be favored by professional photographers and amateurs. In daily photography, because of the personal safety or confidentiality of the subject, the image of the subject cannot be clearly exposed to the world, so it is necessary to artistically process the captured image without affecting the overall shooting effect, which is related to how to use the image contour. Here, only through some shooting examples, I will learn the shooting skills and methods of image contour with you.

First, set the digital camera safely near the edge of the drum stage, so that the girl can keep a certain distance from the canvas background curtain. Shoot with a focal length of 200mm, which is equivalent to 320mm on the DCS520. Then the Lumedyne flash was placed on the floor behind the drum, and a very sensitive controller was used to control the flash. An orange transparent film was placed between the reflector and the scattering plate, and its power was set to 100 Joule.

After many experiments, we think that the effect of placing the reflector parallel to the ground is better, which can make more light project on the background curtain, thus making the outline of the shot image more obvious. Generally speaking, the outline of the subject is not as strict as other shooting. When the camera shutter speed is set to 1/250 seconds and the aperture value is set to f5.6, the color is a bit dark. After weighing, set the aperture value to f8. When shooting, Canon electronic flash was used, and the shutter speed was1128 seconds, which did not let the reflector reflect the light on the scene being shot.

Because there was no external light source available when shooting the right picture, we had to use miner's lamps for lighting. Set the aperture value of the digital camera to f 16 and the shutter speed to 1/2 seconds according to the actual situation. Before shooting, we used the LCD screen equipped with the camera to browse comprehensively, and took many images between the shutter speed of 1 sec and1/sec, and found the best shutter speed. It seems that the effect of this image is still attractive.

In fact, it is not only professional photographers who can take silhouette images. As long as you experience it with your heart and try it boldly, there is always a chance of success. There is no fixed mode for shooting contour images, which will be different according to different scenes and objects. As long as you dare to try again and again, you will find that taking silhouette images is not only not particularly difficult to master, but also allows you to feel the unique pleasure of photography and the feeling of opening up a new world.