Silhouette

A silhouette is a black shape in your image. They're often produced when photographing towards a sunset sky. Silhouettes can be produced anywhere that the subject is photographed against a much brighter background. In order to produce a good silhouette look to do the following things.

• Angle - Make sure that you're down to a low angle, so that the bright background fills your frame.
• Reflective surface - Sometimes you don't need to get down to a low angle, if there is a reflective surface and this also silhouettes your main subject.
• Exposure - Expose the photo for the bright background. The aim is often to have the sky correctly exposed, but the silhouetting object completely dark.
• Subject - Single objects work very nicely, things like trees or people. If you have a group of people you may even be able to ask them to form a shape.