Silhouette Photography: Shooting and Post Processing

Learn how to capture a silhouette, whether you're using a DLSR camera or a mobile phone, by seeing how to use angle and light, leverage settings in your camera, and edit the image.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Exercise files

1. Silhouette Photography

• What is a silhouette?
• Get the shot
• Post-production

2. How to Get the Shot: Location

• Finding the light
• Angle
• Separation
• Think outside the box

3. How to Get the Shot: Camera

• Expose for the sky
• Dynamic range for silhouettes
• Exposure, an overview
• Leaving auto mode: Make the jump
• AE lock
• Highlight Alert enable
• Shutter priority and exposure compensation
• Exposure compensation on a mobile phone
• Exposure compensation with a small camera
• Lens selection

4. Clean Edit Basics

• Fixing the horizon
• Basics panel

5. Tone Curve

• Contrast
• RGB
• Targeted Adjustment tool

6. HSL

• Saturation
• Hue
• Luminance

7. Lens Correction

• Distortion and vignetting
• Chromatic aberation

8. Adjusting Your Blacks

• Using the histogram
• Fine tune with the Adjustment brush

9. Split Toning

• Split toning
• Before and afters

10. Bold Silhouette

• Workflow movie: Make adjustments
• Gradient filter
• Fixing banding and haloing
• Color overlay

Conclusion

• Recap