SILHOUETTES Anyone?

[pestalnmore]

Have not seen a thread for silhouettes. Winter came in yesterday. Experimenting in my living room and came up with this one. Geese have been flying overhead migrationg south. Enjoy;) Carla

[pestalnmore]

Here is a closer look at the same subject.

[jamison55]

Here's a topic with fun possibilities! One of my fav's:

http://mishuna.image.pbase.com/v3/30/516430/3/49888830.MelindaJameyp20.jpg

[jamison55]

...and another:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/jamiewexler/0514a.jpg

[pestalnmore]

Jamison,
Great photos, thanks for chimm:D ing in.Carla

[Geoff Chandler]

Have not seen a thread for silhouettes. Winter came in yesterday. Experimenting in my living room and came up with this one. Geese have been flying overhead migrationg south. Enjoy;) Carla
That's a nice idea - I will be away - hopefully I will have the camera with me - in a weeks time. I will watch out for silhouete oportunities... along
with Panorama oportunities, and Building skylines, and Landscapes, and
people, and ...and...
BTW - do you have any manual controls or adjustments on your current
camera???
Just a thought - with a silhouete like that first one - I might go to the
window first and get an outside reading and leave the camera set to expose for that, that way the veiw outside doesn't wash out because of the dark
forground. Alternatively you can experiment with under exposure - a pic like that would need at least -1.0 ev probably more.
Just trying to help the creative juices

Geoff

[deadman]

Greenwich Park again.

[JTL]

Highway 179, Sedona AZ...

Canon S2, ISO 50, f/5, 1/160 sec.
http://JTL.smugmug.com/photos/34744132-L.jpg

[pestalnmore]

Great shots, love to see the creative elements. You guys are great!

[Phill D]

Beautiful shots guys esp like Sedona JTL that Cannon really does colour well. Here's a couple of "nearly" silhouettes from the Grand Canyon from me. They are just straight out of the camera the second one was just cropped a little to get rid of some distracting foreground.

[Phill D]

Here's the second shot. It was actually snowing slightly in the distance on this one.

[JTL]

Beautiful shots guys esp like Sedona JTL that Cannon really does colour well. Here's a couple of "nearly" silhouettes from the Grand Canyon from me. They are just straight out of the camera the second one was just cropped a little to get rid of some distracting foreground.Thank you! :) Canon's have great color on there own...but I punch the color up a little by setting the saturation to +1 and underexposing every shot I take...this one by more than a stop...

I really love the haunting quality of your second shot!

[explorer]

@ JTL, wow your shot is stunning!


boracay, philippines....

http://www.pbase.com/explorer/image/39575017.jpg

[Phill D]

Thanks JTL, yes I see what you mean about the second shot. Because I was there it conjours up slightly different thoughts & memories for me. One is of the vastness of the scene when you look down the canyon & the other is the fact that it was bitterly cold that morning I didn't have any gloves or hat & the rest of the family had dashed back to the car & were getting very impatiant waiting for me to take these shots so they were a bit rushed & pot luck. I'm afraid they just couldn't understand why I insisted on staying out in the cold when it was pretty dark, starting to snow & we had a long drive ahead of us. Oh well maybe one day I'll be understood :D

[JTL]

@ JTL, wow your shot is stunning!


boracay, philippines....Thank you! :)

Your shot has poetic beuty about it...

[Balrog]

Here's one I took today:
http://static.flickr.com/31/64942330_62b835255d_o.jpg

[Phill D]

Lovely shot Balrog excellent detail. Here's one thats a bit different not taken as a silhouette but I think it qualifies.

[Kushnirenko]

Trees & sky

[Gujustud]

Taken for my photography class, a picture of our skytrain:

http://www.ditchmond.com/gallery/albums/userpics/skytrain5_amish.jpg

[Kushnirenko]

Kharkiv, Ukraine. FinePix S9500. 27, Nov, 2005

[Kushnirenko]

Birch. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Nov, 27, 2005

[Kushnirenko]

Oak. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Nov, 27, 2005

[explorer]

chesterfield (UK) town center...

http://www.pbase.com/explorer/image/52653116.jpg

[Phill D]

Here's a silhoute taken early yesterday morning. I think it looks a bit like an image from War of the Worlds where the aliens are marching over the land.

[Dawoofo]

Seagull silhouetted against a dismal-looking cloud bank...

[mario_sav]

Two pics I found

http://www.gfoto.com/Files/79EE00A698214E3CA4AC90E890CFDC65/orig_A71902C770CB4F64BF59F58C04A81CCE.JPG

http://www.gfoto.com/Files/79EE00A698214E3CA4AC90E890CFDC65/orig_1DE3FE3631F24C88802FA4DDE6306214.JPG

[Phill D]

Ever get that feeling you're being watched!

[Kushnirenko]

Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Jan, 12, 2006

[Zuiko]

. . .I`m learning, so comment, please :)

[valleykayaker]

JTL, excellent composition. This would make an excellent 16x20 or larger for your home. Great job. :):)

[Prospero]

Lago di Mergozzo (near Lago Maggiore) in northern Italy.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/mergozzo.jpg

[mario_sav]

Plane sohouette in Mexico City

[American Nomad]

Prospero - Nice shot.
mario_sav - Very cool!

[Phill D]

Yep I second that, both excellent shots. Are those splodges in the sky birds prospero or just odd wisps of cloud? I think I'd be inclined to paint them out in processing either way.

[Prospero]

Thanks for your comments. I think those splodges in the sky are just odd wisps of cloud. I'll see what I can do about them.

EDIT: I successfully removed those wisps of cloud. I like my picture a lot better this way. Thanks for the advice Phill. My original post shows the result.

[Phill D]

No problem, yes much nicer now.:)

[Kushnirenko]

Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Jan, 25, 2006

[Kushnirenko]

Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Jan, 21, 2006

[Prospero]

Here's another one. I took this photo in Perugia, Italy. It's a pitty this person on the left is on the picture, it somewhat ruins the picture.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/alley.jpg

[Stoller]

http://mlrc.us/mnt/gallery/images/Jan2006_dog10.jpg

[fizbin]

Crystal Bridge OKC
http://www.fizbinphotography.com/images/posts/sill.jpg

[retro]

http://franserasmie.com/portfolio/3.november/november1bw.jpg

http://franserasmie.com/portfolio/0.new/blue.jpg

[sparky]

Still waiting for the digital camera, several years ago with Nikon 5005.

[Kushnirenko]

Thawing weather. Sumskaya str. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Jan, 31, 2006

[fizbin]

Hey Kush,
Do you have any summery warm looking months there? :)

[Kushnirenko]

Hey Kush,
Do you have any summery warm looking months there? :)
That how many it, this winter... ;)
Kharkiv, Ukraine. Olympus C765UZ. Jun, 24, 2005

[glf_sproull]

I believe this classifies as a silhouette! I was driving home from class and this scene caught my attention. Only problem was, I didn't have my tripod, so I had to substitute my car roof for the tripod! (the slight shaking of my car caused the little bit of bluriness) This was shot with the Powershot S2, shutter @ 2sec and f/3.5. Hope you enjoy!

[Kushnirenko]

I believe this classifies as a silhouette! I was driving home from class and this scene caught my attention. Only problem was, I didn't have my tripod, so I had to substitute my car roof for the tripod! (the slight shaking of my car caused the little bit of bluriness) This was shot with the Powershot S2, shutter @ 2sec and f/3.5. Hope you enjoy!
Perfectly! Absence of a tripod sometimes causes problems. It is possible to use that that is near at hand. A bottle of beer, for example! ;)

[glf_sproull]

Perfectly! Absence of a tripod sometimes causes problems. It is possible to use that that is near at hand. A bottle of beer, for example! ;)

Now you're getting creative! haha! I just hated to give up that scene because I didn't have a tripod. I'm sure you're been in that situation before! Sometimes you've got to think outside the proverbial "tripod". Thanks for the comments. :D

[glf_sproull]

Hello again!

Here's a photo of a red-tailed hawk hovering in a field near my house. I thought the setting turned out nicely.

[Prospero]

Now you're getting creative! haha! I just hated to give up that scene because I didn't have a tripod. I'm sure you're been in that situation before! Sometimes you've got to think outside the proverbial "tripod". Thanks for the comments. :D

You're right, when you don't have a tripod while needing one you have to be creative ;). When I was in Rome I had forgotten my tripod, but I really needed one to take photographs in the churches of the city. Now I could have bought a small table top tripod on every corner of the street, but sometimes I tend to be quite greedy :o. So instead of a tripod I have used benches, the floor, my knees, travelguides, Italian leaflets, and some other things resulting in many sharp pictures :).

Here's a picture of a silhoutte taken on Saint Peter's Square in Rome (this one has nothing to do with the tripod stuff, by the way):

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/silhouette-rome.jpg

[mumbles420]

Sunset in front of my apartment

[Prospero]

Beautiful picture, Numbles. Did you use any post processing? I see this is your first post on this forum. Welcome to this forum. I hope to see many more of your pictures in the future :).

[mumbles420]

Beautiful picture, Numbles. Did you use any post processing? I see this is your first post on this forum. Welcome to this forum. I hope to see many more of your pictures in the future :).
Thank you sooooo much. I Just got into photography about a month ago and I LOVE it!! So I don't really know that much about it. So when you say "post processing", I'm asuming you are talking about "editing" or something and if you are then no. I haven't done anything with it. Just as is. Thank you for the warm welcoming! I feel the love

[Prospero]

You're right, when I say post processing I mean editing (for instance with photoshop). The reason I asked is that I have never ever seen the sky looking like that in my life, so I figured you had made the sky purple by editting it (I sometimes make my sunset pictures more beautiful that way :o). Now I know that you haven't done anything with it, it makes the picture seem even more beautiful :).

[mumbles420]

Ok cool cool, I'm learning! YaaaaY. I don't have any editing software. So what do you recomend? I only thing I was when I was taking the picture I messed around with the white balance features. So I guess the sky really wasn't that actually color. It was really close though. Does that count as post processing?

[fizbin]

Thank goodness you messed around a little with the color or that purple sky would have sent me under the bed at home screaming :)

Photoshop CS2 is what I use but it is very expensive. There really isn't much it can't do though.

[fizbin]

Prospero
Cool shot, it would be really cool if the sun were right behind that monument.

[Prospero]

Thanks for your comments, Fizbin. I'll try to remember that the next time I am in Rome.

Mumbles, changing the white balance is done before you take the picture, so that would be pre-processing ;). I also use Photoshop CS2. In my opinion it's the best there is, but like Fizbin said its expensive. A bit of a cheaper option would be Paint Shop Pro. You could also try Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/) which is free, but has only the basic functions. Perhaps there is also some basic editting software supplied with your camera.

[Shiloh]

I took this one this morning before I left the house.

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/5302/sillohuette4wb.jpg

[JTL]

http://JTL.smugmug.com/photos/55992039-L.jpg

[Prospero]

Some branches I photographed a couple of days ago.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/branches.jpg

[mumbles420]

Here is a picture i took yesterday while camping with friends.
Olympus SP-500UZ, ISO 80, f/2.8, 1/250 sec.

[TheObiJuan]

Closest thing I could find that is already hosted. I suppose I could adjust the levels to make it a true silhouette.
http://misheli.image.pbase.com/v3/65/568765/1/44916723.IMG_6179.jpg

[Kushnirenko]

Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Feb, 12, 2006

[Prospero]

Here's another one:

[cdifoto]

My take on a silhouette.

http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/jc/images/02silhouette_2.jpg

:D

PS: I didn't take that photo. It's linked from CanadianDriver.com. Credit goes to them!


Ok ok seriously now.... here's my take on one. Kinda corny but it seemed a good idea at the time.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a304/cdifoto/path/2005-09-23_021.jpg

[mumbles420]

Kushnirenko,
That is a real cool picture like always. I love the cold dark look of it. As well as Prospero, your photos are always cool to look at. You love those trees.
Brian.

[Kushnirenko]

Kushnirenko,
That is a real cool picture like always. I love the cold dark look of it. As well as Prospero, your photos are always cool to look at. You love those trees.
Brian.
Thanks, Brian.
Violinist. Music which is pulled out from a captivity. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Feb, 14, 2006

[Prospero]

Kushnirenko,
That is a real cool picture like always. I love the cold dark look of it. As well as Prospero, your photos are always cool to look at. You love those trees.
Brian.

Thanks Brian.

Here's another silhouette, I took this one in the Colloseum in Rome.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/colloseo-s.jpg

[Shiloh]

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7217/silsnset1nt.jpg

[Prospero]

Here's another shot I took in Ravello, a small town overlooking the Amalfi coastline near Naples, Italy.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/ravello-silhouet.jpg

[Glenn Kennedy]

Prospero. Ravello is a brilliant place. I started a week's walk along (up and down thousands of steps) the Amalfi Coast starting from Ravello. The Tower hotel, I think was where we stayed

Class place. love to go back sometime.

In the meantime - here's a farmhouse on a hill a mile or so from where I am sitting.

[DMSP33]

here is a few from an air flied I was at a few days ago

[mumbles420]

Wow, Nice photos guys.

Shiloh, that is really cool. Nice and vibrent.

DMSP33, I really like the first one alot.

Here is one I took on the way to San Francisco in my friends car.

[American Nomad]

I think this is my first post in this thread.

[Prospero]

Prospero. Ravello is a brilliant place. I started a week's walk along (up and down thousands of steps) the Amalfi Coast starting from Ravello. The Tower hotel, I think was where we stayed

Class place. love to go back sometime.

In the meantime - here's a farmhouse on a hill a mile or so from where I am sitting.

Ravello is indeed amazing. Though we reached it be car, I think I did see the steps you had to walk over to reach Ravello. It was in the summer and very hot when I was there, so I felt glad we didn't have to walk over all these steps :). I don't recall having seen the Tower Hotel in Ravello, but I was only there for an hour or two.

Here's a picture I took on the way back to Sorrento - this was the place where we were staying - through the windscreen of the car. There were forest fires at the time near Positano, so that explains all the smoke:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/positano-smoke.jpg

[Prospero]

And here's another picture I took in the 'Westerpark' in my hometown Zoetermeer yesterday:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/silhouet-westerpark.jpg

[D70FAN]

Some real nice shots in this group. Some not quite silhouettes, but nice none the less.

Here is one from my test shot group...

[D70FAN]

Wow, Nice photos guys.

Shiloh, that is really cool. Nice and vibrent.

DMSP33, I really like the first one alot.

Here is one I took on the way to San Francisco in my friends car.

Now that's a silhouette...

Good shot of the "pointy building" against the sun.

[mumbles420]

Hello George,

I was thinking the same about not all were I guess a true silhouette. Thank you for the kind words. It was taken the same day as the one i took of the "Bay" bridge and posted in the "Bridge" thread. Where was your silhouette taken at?

[D70FAN]

Hello George,

I was thinking the same about not all were I guess a true silhouette. Thank you for the kind words. It was taken the same day as the one i took of the "Bay" bridge and posted in the "Bridge" thread. Where was your silhouette taken at?

San Francisco is a great photographers city. A mixture of victorian and modern with the piers, and Packbell Park (uh SBC Park) thrown in. Crissey Field, The Presidio, Golden Gate Park, Fort Point, Exploratorium, and of course... the zoo.

One of these trips back home to the Bay Area, I plan to spend a few days (take CalTrain up there from Belmont) and just shoot The City.

Anyway... The picture was taken from my back yard (by the pool). A great place to watch the sunset with a beverage.;) Ahhh.

[Phill D]

I thought I'd revive this thread with this one. It was my first shot with a circular polariser fitted to my FZ20. The sky was pretty pale without the polariser but with the filter it brought out the sky & showed off the trees in silhouette more than I was expecting. I think I'll have some fun with this filter when I get used to it.

[Chem]

Here 2 silhouettes I shot. The first one with a Canon A70 in Seaworld and the second one with a Canon S2 during a sunset boattrip in Bali.

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/1607/seaworld01ivo6nk.jpg

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/692/img13494wv.jpg

[britkev]

Probably cheating, since this is heavily PP'd in an attempt to salvage something from a less than successful attempt at shooting at a concert last week (seat too far away, no control over lighting, of course, and my glass is either too short or too slow)

[T06]

Now I just need to work out how to use it.:)

[mumbles420]

Here's one I took yesterday. After it Finally stopped raining for a Little bit.

[Prospero]

Here's one I shot last night in my garden:

http://prospero.cabspace.com/pictures/sunset1.jpg

[YZdirtrider13]

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j247/YmotocrossR/b4a97ec2.jpg

[Glenn Kennedy]

This one hasn't been active for a while. So let's try again. In the morning sun, this place looks like a villa in Tuscany (it's actually chapel in Northern Ireland). In the evening, it makes for a nce silhouette.

[Phill D]

I tried to get trees on the skyline & cow parsley in the foreground. Almost worked.

[Phill D]

Shame I didn't notice the fence position at the time. It would have made a better shot if I'd moved a bit. Oh well :(

[Phill D]

Is that a helicopter in the distance on the right :confused:

[Phill D]

A couple of clues in a detailed crop of the cow parsley. If you look closely you'll see some dragon flies resting for the night. It just goes to show you never know what youre taking pictures of. Started off trying to capture a sunset & ended up with a silhouette of dragonflies. All shots straight from the camera & cropped no other PP. Oh just to help you find them there are two or possibly three dragonflies on this shot.
Shot details originally ~12x zoom with FZ20 at f2.8, 1/100s hand held, iso 80. then very heavilly cropped probably around 70% ish.

[mumbles420]

Went out on a walk and found this scene. Taken with Nikon Coolpix 8700

Shutter 1/500 - F.No. 3.2 - ISO 50

By me under-exposing the sunset it enriches the colors and throwing any subjects into silhouette. Making for a dramatic scene.

[karate36chic]

wow,
i really like the fence one with the colorful sunrise.
sorry, forgot to look at the name before i hit post reply

[mumbles420]

wow,
i really like the fence one with the colorful sunrise.
sorry, forgot to look at the name before i hit post reply

Thanks a bunch. It was actually a sunset.

[Prospero]

Here's a picture I took at night, it's a 20 minute exposure. The thin lines in the sky are stars. I should have done a better job composing this thing, but, considering I had no tripod its not that bad.

http://prospero.cabspace.com/pictures/ultra-long-exposure.jpg

[Phill D]

20 minutes wow! that must have been a very still night.

[toriaj]

20 minutes handheld?? :eek: Didn't you have to scratch or something? :rolleyes: Or maybe you set the camera on your car, something like that? Beautiful pic.

[xwg]

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a384/Teckademics14/P1000732.jpg
not the prettiest

[Prospero]

20 minutes handheld?? :eek: Didn't you have to scratch or something? :rolleyes: Or maybe you set the camera on your car, something like that? Beautiful pic.

Thanks Phill and Toriaj. No, the shot was not handheld. I lay my camera on the ground (which was soft so that it would not damage the camera) and I pointed it upwards using some branches. I kept the shutter pressed down using a piece of elastic.
The night was indeed very still. I took the shot at 3 o'clock at night, so most people had long gone to bed. I had to switch off all the lights in the house because they caused strange bright parts on the trees.

[GaryS]

Brian, I love your sunset shot.... Very dramatic!

[Otherside]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/67894419@N00/124345140/in/set-72057594138521026/

That's my best silhouette shot!

Taken using a Canon S2is, probably in automatic mode...

[mumbles420]

My friend Dave and Beth on beach in Santa Cruz. Came out a little out of focus but it's ok. Nikon Coolpix 8700

[mumbles420]

Took this one in the parking lot at the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz

[toriaj]

Sorry about the noise, sometime I'm going to get PSP so I can noise-reduce ...
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[Fz5_newbie]

Standing stones of Brodgar.........Orkney, Scotland.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11/toddler19/ringofbrodgar.jpg

[toriaj]

Taken in Monte Cristo canyon, Utah, USA. What are your thoughts on my technique, settings, composition, ??

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[cpat]

You gotta love Hawaii.

http://static.flickr.com/54/127228073_d303e99ea8.jpg

[Vich]

CPat, love your Hawaii shot. Nice tiki's. Real nice.

Here's one from tonight, Newport Beach, CA.
http://FLASHME.smugmug.com/photos/82170618-M.jpg

[zac]

This is in mexico

[black_z]

Will a screenshot of my desktop work?! :)


Can't find the original. :(

http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/663/dt2mb.jpg

[T06]

Sharpened & cropped:)P.S.Black Z great shot & very impressive of the screen shot too.

[wutske]

Will a screenshot of my desktop work?! :)


Can't find the original. :(

http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/663/dt2mb.jpg

I don't know how it goes for Vista, but it seems to work in XP. Go to the screen properties where you choose the destop wallpaper. Make sure you've selected that background and click on 'browse'. It should open the folder where that image is saved.

Nice wallpaper too, looks good with Vista :) .

[Nickcanada]

Not the greatest pic but it was fun!

[Nickcanada]

Here is another.

[Blob]

14746
Nikon D50, nikon 24-85mm 3.5-4.5

[nef]

Hi all. Some beautiful shots here. I love the last one, Blob. this is my first post on this chain. I think it is kind of eerie.

[forno]

Great shot!! usaully I like to get the impression of movement but in this one the freeze adds to the feel

[BUTL950]

taken at sunset .................

[Phill D]

Took this in London I just liked the contrast of old silhoutte & new background.
I think Boudica might be saying "Hey if we had wheels like that we'd have won!" :D

[sully]

Here is a pretty simple shot but I really like it.

[tomdymond]

http://schoolwork.fpic.co.uk/p35671662.html
you might need the password if so its is 1234

this is some building work they are doing at my school.

what you all think?

[YZdirtrider13]

its actually a signature i made to use on some forums, but i took the picture. its my dirtbike.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j247/YmotocrossR/f0cd8d2b.jpg

EDIT: found the original and another, taken against the same sky.

http://images18.fotki.com/v347/free/dea74/9/943682/3915429/biked-vi.jpg

http://www.freewebs.com/yzdirtrider13/IMG%5F0180.jpg

[mumbles420]

A wonderful night in San Francisco. Colors adjusted a bit in Photoshop.

Golden Gate Bridge

[toriaj]

What a great shot! Mumbles, the rhythm of the natural light peeking through on the left, continuing into the artificial lights on the right ... genius! :D

[mumbles420]

What a great shot! Mumbles, the rhythm of the natural light peeking through on the left, continuing into the artificial lights on the right ... genius! :D

Hey thanks there toriaj.:). I totally wasn't trying to do that(with the lights continuing)but I'm really glad it turned out the way it did.:D

[SpecialK]

Running man, Venice, California

[liteace]

http://usera.imagecave.com/liteace/del/DSC_0091-copy.jpg

http://usera.imagecave.com/liteace/del/DSC_0092-copy.jpg

[SpecialK]

Santa Monica pier

[Vich]

http://FLASHME.smugmug.com/photos/119965320-L.jpg

[mumbles420]

I couldn't decide whether to put this in birds or here but as you can see you know where I stuck it.

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs17/f/2007/167/5/e/Light_Bird_by_AlwaysThinkingPhoto.jpg

[JPRATT]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1255/1410114285_10526b070b_b.jpg

[trucic]

Some trys with Fuji s5700... Cheers!!


http://www.flickr.com/photos/9147880@N02/

[SpecialK]

Late morning in Southern California during recent fires.