Silhouettes

1) (Short) VIDEO LESSON on HOW TO TAKE A SILHOUETTE PHOTO

2) SHOOTING: GETTING A SILHOUETTE IMAGE TO USE FOR THE NEXT PROJECT

For our next project, we'll be using Photoshop to create silhouettes over coloured backgrounds (like the old iPod ads). While it's not necessary to take a perfect silhouette photo for that project (Photoshop does most of the work), today you should try to do that just for practice.

Try to get a shot similar to the one above!

The fewer background elements intersecting with your subject, the better!

Today's goal: You and your partner should have properly composed silhouettes (i.e. nothing dark behind the subject) of each other that you can use in the next project.