Silhoutte Photos

[A.D. Hanekom]

Here are two pictures I took, trying to get the silhouette effect. Tell me what you think...

 

[Dionysus]

if it were mine:

1. i would crop out a little bit off the bottom.
2. this is underexposed

 

[A.D. Hanekom]

Ok how's this...

 

[stsinner]

The tree looks very nice in the crop.

 

[rdzmzda]

whats with the two spots on the top one? i always get the best silhouette when i put the lens right beside the sun and set exposure off that try it out let us know...i also really like the tree but perhaps move it off center a bit

 

[chrisburke]

i cant say i'm a fan.. as they dont look totally silhouetted to me... i can still see the textures of the trees and such... my experience with silhouettes is that they just look straight black, no textures, just black

 

[manaheim]

First one is kinda neat. Is that horizon the way it should be? Looks a bit off-level- use the tree to judge straightness, maybe.

I would want to crop off the left or right to put that tree more into the rule of thirds position, but its a shame because I really want to push it more to the left and that would cut out a lot of interesting objects.

Regardless, looks like you got silhoettes, which is what you wanted, so cheers.

I don't see anything silhoetteish in the second one... it's just a "shot in the dark" <guffaw>. (btw, that one needs levelling also)

 

[feRRari4756]

personally i dont like any of them at all. the first one the horizon is pretty crooked and not really that much color except the orange and i think the bottom of the pic in the first one is ugly. Also, I think you should show very little maybe one iinch (in the final photograph) of the forground and a lot more of the sky. just put the horizon the the bottom 1/3 of the photo.

the send one i think could have been a lot sharper and the tree could have been straight and whatever is in the foreground (i think lawn chairs?) should be mmoved.

but i really think the second scene has potential for a nice shot.

 

[Dagwood56]

To me the top photo just looks like your average sunset. The second one has potential, but I would crop out the bright orange sun. Just my opinion.