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Silhouette Your Subjects Create a fresh take on your subjects by making them dark against a properly exposed background Article rating: 8.36

By exposing to make your subjects show up as dark forms, they take on graphic impact and mystery and leave a little to the viewer's imagination to tell a story.  Do this by exposing for the background only and then stopping down one f-stop or so to make your subjects dark enough eliminate detail in them.

Pedestrians, downtown Seattle © Chris Michaels
  

Silhouette of a San Francisco cable car © Chris Michaels
 

Volleyball at Mission Beach, San Diego © Chris Michaels

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GREAR IDEA Posted by: WALTER THOMAS Sep 4, 2008 @ 3:47 PM EST

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