Silhouette Photography

Original Photos are on the left, edits are on the right. Edits made to the photos are listed below the two versions of the image. Artist statement is at the bottom.

Edited Photo (right) — Brilliance: -0.19, Exposure: 0, Highlights: 0, Shadows: -0.31, Brightness: 0, Contrast: 0.48, Black Point: 0.31, Saturation: 0, Contrast(color): 1.00, Cast: 0.06

Edited Photo (right) — Brilliance: 0, Exposure: 0, Highlights: 0, Shadows: -0.28, Brightness: 0, Contrast: 0, Black Point: 0, Saturation: -0.16, Contrast(color): 0.29, Cast: -0.02

Edited Photo (right) — Brilliance: 0, Exposure: 0, Highlights: 1.00, Shadows: -0.17, Brightness: 0, Contrast: 0, Black Point: 0.07, Saturation: 1.00, Contrast(color): 1.00, Cast: 0.23

Edited Photo (right) — Brilliance: 0, Exposure: -0.55, Highlights: 0, Shadows: 0, Brightness: 0, Contrast: 0.42, Black Point: 0.26, Saturation: -0.40, Contrast(color): 1.00, Cast: 0.06

Edited Photo (right) — Brilliance: 0, Exposure: 0.01, Highlights: 0.14, Shadows: 0, Brightness: 0.22, Contrast: 0.49, Black Point: 0.15, Saturation: -0.21, Contrast(color): 0.80, Cast: 0.12

Edited Photo (right) — Brilliance: 0.26, Exposure: -0.04, Highlights: 0.11, Shadows: -0.28, Brightness: 0, Contrast: 0.29, Black Point: 0.05, Saturation: -0.30, Contrast(color): 1.00, Cast: -0.96

Edited Photo (right) — (DEFAULT BLACK + WHITE SETTING) Brilliance: 0, Exposure: 0, Highlights: 0, Shadows: -0.61, Brightness: 0, Contrast: 0, Black Point: 0.17, Saturation: 0, Contrast(color): 1.00, Cast: 0

Edited Photo (right) — Brilliance: 0, Exposure: 0.12, Highlights: -0.33, Shadows: -0.83, Brightness: 0, Contrast: 0.58, Black Point: 0, Saturation: 0, Contrast(color): 1.00, Cast: -0.63

Edited Photo (right) — (CROPPED IMAGE) Brilliance: 0, Exposure: 0, Highlights: 0, Shadows: -0.04, Brightness: -0.05, Contrast: 0, Black Point: 0.34, Saturation: 0.06, Contrast(color): 0, Cast: 0.15

Edited Photo (right) — Brilliance: -0.23, Exposure: -0.03, Highlights: -1.00, Shadows: -0.29, Brightness: -0.45, Contrast: -0.36, Black Point: 0.40, Saturation: -0.34, Contrast(color): 0.48, Cast: 0.40

This project consisted of the requirement to take silhouette photos, then take 10 of them to edit. Originally, I wanted to use my camera as much as possible, but since most of the settings either messed with the focus or lighting of the silhouette I wanted to take eventually I settled on using my phone for many of the images. In the photos application, I mostly made edits to the shadows, black point, and contrast in order to make photos as silhouette-like as possible (some still aren't quite perfect, though.) Some of the images are ones that I'm pretty proud of for their unique composition and/or engaging silhouette subjects or backgrounds, and others could have been better and far more interesting. I think maybe I should have gone to more of a variety of places at a variety of times (at sunset, sunrise, etc.) However, due to after school activities/rehearsals and other homework, that might have been a bit difficult. Overall, however, I believe I've gained a much better understanding of silhouette photography; if I see a nice opportunity for silhouette photo in the future I'll take advantage of that, even if it may not be a final product for this specific project.