Nine Skills of Portrait Silhouette Photography

Nine Skills of Portrait Silhouette Photography

Lead: What are the skills of portrait silhouette photography? The following are 9 portrait silhouette photography techniques that I have carefully arranged for you. Welcome to refer to them!

1) from the background.

The subject must be separated from the background. If the two overlap, the outline of the character can't stand out, and people can't see what they want to shoot. So find a wider sky, put characters in it, and you will get eye-catching works.

2) Two positions

When you find a suitable position to separate the subject from the background, you should deal with the movements and postures of the characters, because in silhouette photos, the details disappear and the audience can only judge what happened from the outline. For example, they will let couples kiss slowly and press the shutter before touching. Once they really kissed, there was only a mass of black stuff left.

3) Composition

In the photo above, the two trees become a strong guiding line, which makes people focus on the characters, while the right side is covered with a lot of patterns for matching. The application of bisection makes the photo easier to read.

4) Timely

Dusk time is certainly a good opportunity to take a silhouette. The sky was dyed in different colors, and the white clouds became colorful clouds. This picture is the most beautiful.

5) Depth of field

Photographers usually adjust the aperture to f/8 to get as many details as possible, but in some cases, such as the above picture, he will increase the aperture to reduce the depth of field and weaken the interference of the foreground.

6) Angle

One way to make the subject stand out from the background is to shoot from an ultra-low angle. For example, the above picture is an example, people stand on the slope line and the background is a clean sky.

7) Artificial lighting

In some cases, we can't find open places, for example, in dense forests. At this time, we can make our own portrait silhouette by flashing/flying lights. Those lights around the outer edge of the main body will produce a beautiful effect.

8) Use a wide-angle lens

For example, in the above picture, by using a wide-angle lens, you can create a contrast between new people and forest characters in the picture, and the photos will be even more shocking.

9) Use different backgrounds

It is very convenient to create a silhouette with the sky, but you can also pay attention to whether there are other things nearby that can be used as light sources. For example, the above picture can also highlight the main body with the lake reflecting sunlight as the background.

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