Tried silhouette work last night

lisasolonynko

I decided to get to work on some silhouettes last night before it gets too cold. CC is really appreciated.

Lisa

goldilocksandmy3bears

lisasolonynko wrote:

I decided to get to work on some silhouettes last night before it gets too cold. CC is really appreciated.

Lisa

To cold?? Where are you from? Can you smell my jealousy? Here in south Texas its 90 degrees at NIGHT! cool shot I like the detail of them. I've tried to do these types of shots but was only sucessful with palm trees lol.

lisasolonynko

goldilocksandmy3bears wrote:

To cold?? Where are you from? Can you smell my jealousy? Here in south Texas its 90 degrees at NIGHT! cool shot I like the detail of them. I've tried to do these types of shots but was only sucessful with palm trees lol.

Hi Goldilock... Well, I live in Canada. Brrrr. It will soon be way too cold to have people sit by the water and ask them to stay perfectly still while I capture them in such low light conditions.

Thanks for the comment. Have a great, hot, day!

Lisa

philipw

Beautiful. I love silhouette photography like this. Is the orange natural, or did you use a filter?

Philip

lisasolonynko

The orange is natural. It was right before the light turned blue. The orange light only lasted about 3 minutes, but I am glad I got it. I could have changed it to blue in LR, but decided to leave it as is.

Thanks for the comment.

Lisa

marikris

I love that you were able to capture the interaction between them in silhouette. I can almost hear them talking, and the dog listening (look at his ears lol). What were you shooting with and what's your settings? I haven't done a silhouette yet, except with a point and shoot some time ago.

xxclixxx

Nice. Personally I'd darken the silhouette more. On my monitor I can see a bit of the detail of the clothes. Thought it sorta looks like you tried with a square brush, dunno if it's my eyes bugging out or not though.

If you are using lightroom the "Adjustment Brush" with "Auto Mask" checked on makes it pretty easy to only darken the silhouette.

lisasolonynko

Hi marikris,

This was actually tougher on the people in the image than on me. I put them in possition and told them to "interact". The snag was that they had to hold each "interaction" really steady. The wildcard was the dog. It just so happened that he had his eye on something and he stayed perfectly still for that frame. All the others were a blur.

Exp: 1/6 sec at f/16
Foc length: 87 mm
Lens: EF70-200 f/4 (needed to be far enough away so the dog would relax)

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Lisa