Silhouette shots

               In photography, SILHOUETTE can be defined as an outline that appears dark when subject is backlit against a light background.  More specifically, it is when your subject appears in black shape with a very little or no detail against a brighter background.  This is an artistic outcome that many photographers like to perfect.  This effect can be achieved with many kind of bright light source, but the most commonly used is the sun at sunrise or sunset.  The back-lighting from the sun shadows everything towards you and produces this effect.

When I am getting ready to take my silhouette pictures, there are a couple of things that I keep in mind. I make sure that I never point the lens directly at the sun because if there is too much light, the light will fall on my object.  And if there is not enough light, my background will become gray.  The main key to silhouette is having your background lighter than your object, but this can be done in more ways than one.  Even though it seems easy, you must plan your shots really well and try to think fast of what you are going to do and what you wanted the outcome to be.  It really takes practice, experimentation, and maybe even a little luck to capture a truly spectacular silhouette photo.