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Stunning Silhouette Photos for Inspiration

In the area of photography, a silhouette is defined as an outline that appears dark against a light background. More specifically, it is where your subject appears as a plain black shape against a brighter background. It is an artistic photography expression that many photographers like to refine and perfect in their images.

This effect can be achieved with any bright light source with the sun being the most common. In a sunset silhouette photo, the sunlight in the background is exposed correctly forcing everything else in the photo to be underexposed causing the effect.

Usually the best silhouette photographs can be taken when there is a lighting ratio of 16:1. When taking the photo, exposure is set for the background, the aperture is usually set at 9-11 and shutter speed is set at around 120-200.

What we have listed here are some of the best silhouette photographs. There is something to learn in each one of them. If you observe what others have done to take these stunning photographs.

Here are a few of them to inspire you.

A little too early for you, kid by Tanakawh

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Amazing Macro Photography of Thomas Shahan

twiching.com : Amazing Macro Photography of Thomas Shahan

Thomas Shahan, is an artist and macrophotographer from Oklahoma. In his spare time over the past few years, he have been shooting portraiture of local arthropods. Why would he devote countless hours to tramping through forests, fields and the like searching for insects and spiders? Well, despite some common beliefs, arthropods (members of the phylum Arthropoda — insects, spiders, crustaceans…) represent an endlessly varied, wildly beautiful and fascinating bunch of animals with surprisingly personable faces and behavior. Often, all it takes is simply inspecting their lives on a closer level to turn repulsion to reverence.

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A full-frame Nikon for your full-time passion – D600

A full-frame Nikon for your full-time passion.

Finally, the power of a 24.3 MP Nikon FX-format CMOS sensor in a compact, streamlined HD-SLR body. Create brilliant full-frame images and 1080p videos. Capture every detail in stunning clarity with Nikon’s superior 39-point AF system with Scene Recognition. Empower your inner filmmaker with cinema-quality HD video recording features. Nikon FX-format quality has never been more attainable.

If you’ve been looking to take your passion to the next level with full-frame HD-SLR performance, your wait is over. Now the power of a pro-level Nikon FX-format camera—stunning full-frame images, cinema-quality 1080p videos, superior low-light performance, blazing fast framing and burst rates, built-in HDR, wireless photo sharing and much more—is attainable in a compact, lightweight HD-SLR. Optimized for full-frame shooting and versatility, streamlined for compactness and value, the D600 will fuel your passion like never before.

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Tips for Bokeh Photography

Bokeh Photography Tutorial

In order to capture great bokeh shots you will need to set the aperture of your lens to as shallow as it can go. Use a 50mm f1.8, a 70-200mm f2.8, or if you don’t have those, you can still probably use the 18-55mm kit lens that came with your camera (just make sure to zoom in all the way and set the aperture to as low as it can go, f5.6 in most cases).

Because we are working in low light situations, it is a very good idea to have the camera on a tripod to rid camera shake. You can light your subject up with a lamp. In the video I used regular  incandescent / tungsten light bulbs in the background and lit my subject up with a near-incandescent modeling lamp as well. If you are a strobist you can use an external flash to light your subject, just make sure to put some sort of tan colored gel over your flash unit to make sure the lighting in the background and on the subject match color temperature.

Watch the video of how to do it here : http://www.twiching.com/learningcenter/twichorials/94/

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