1. A silhouette is an outline of an object with no internal details, usually appearing black against a brighter background due to backlighting from a light source like the sun. 2. To capture a silhouette, the object must be placed directly in front of the light source so it blocks the light. Too many light sources or a background that reflects light can wash out the silhouette effect. 3. Any object can be used for a silhouette as long as it can be backlit, like holding up a fish or photographing under a swimming fish to capture its silhouette against the sunlight filling the water.

1. Silhouette Photography By Liisa Huotari 1

2. 2 What is a silhouette? A silhouette is an object that is seen as an outline with no detail inside and is usually black in colour. This is caused by having your object (in this case, the trees) being backlit with a bright light, for example, the sun.

3. 3 What kind of lighting can I use? When trying to find a light source, you must first decide whether you want the sky in the background of your photo to be a sunrise, afternoon, or sunset . Or if you do a photo inside, what you would like the background to be.Then as long as your object is right in front of the light source, you should get a silhouette effect.

5. You have more than one light source causing the object to be too well lit.

7. 6 One key characteristic of a silhouette is when the object gets what looks like a halo behind them, usually on things with hair, fur and other such things.

8. 7 This photo is taken in a rain water drainage pipe. The man in the photo is holding a camera with a very bright flash, the flash is what causes the inside of the drain to be lit Again, there is a “halo” around the object

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11. 10 Hopefully by watching this slideshow, you learned what a silhouette photograph was and also learned how to achieve a silhouette effect in your future photos.