Silhouettes

[Mulewings~]

A couple of years ago, we did our family portrait as a silhouette.

What a creative idea...:thumbup:

 

[ej.]

My family lets me get away with quite a bit. No silhouette for our most recent portrait, but it was fun to do nonetheless!

 

[pugnacious33]

 

[johngpt]

 

[baileylucas]

 

[lmchelaru]

Which one?

or

 

[Rob_W]

 

[johngpt]

Which one?

or

Which one?

Silly, they're both silhouettes! :lmao:


Okay, I know what you meant. I prefer the first, for several reasons. It seems more crisp, the angle of the head creates a diagonal in frame from low right to upper left, and the green and gold hues are gorgeous.

While the second one is also a fine image, I find it's not as crisp as your first, and the angle of the person's chin to crown of head is too level for my particular taste, almost cutting the frame in half.

But of course, others will probably have differing opinions. What matters most is how you feel each accomplishes the vision of what you desired to create.

 

[rallysman]

From a concert:

 

[JimmyO]

my fave silhouettes is always one of my fave shots ive taken

 

[johngpt]

my fave silhouettes is always one of my fave shots ive taken

Oh yeah, JimmyO!

 

[JimmyO]

Thanks

 

[rufus5150]

Took this one today.

 

[lmchelaru]

Which one?

Silly, they're both silhouettes! :lmao:


Okay, I know what you meant. I prefer the first, for several reasons. It seems more crisp, the angle of the head creates a diagonal in frame from low right to upper left, and the green and gold hues are gorgeous.

While the second one is also a fine image, I find it's not as crisp as your first, and the angle of the person's chin to crown of head is too level for my particular taste, almost cutting the frame in half.

But of course, others will probably have differing opinions. What matters most is how you feel each accomplishes the vision of what you desired to create.

Thanks for the input. I pretty much agree with you on all those points. I've had some people give me different opinions (which is totally cool), so I wanted some feedback from TFP because most people here know what they're talking about.

What about the hair sticking up everywhere? I like it, but everyone's telling me to PS it out.


rufus5150, I love that shot. What is it?

 

[johngpt]

Thanks for the input. I pretty much agree with you on all those points. I've had some people give me different opinions (which is totally cool), so I wanted some feedback from TFP because most people here know what they're talking about.

What about the hair sticking up everywhere? I like it, but everyone's telling me to PS it out.

Silhouettes first began as paper cut-outs, so to be true to the original form, there'd be no wild strands of hair. But silhouettes were an easy method to generate a likeness of a person. So to be true to that aspect, if a person has wild hair, it would seem important to show that.

I guess if it were my image, if the wild strands detracted from the effect I was trying to achieve, or caused the eye to be distracted from what I wanted as the focal point of the image, then I'd clone away. Otherwise, I might use those wild highlights as part of the composition.

In your images, I didn't find the wild hair distracting.