Good photos take you to explore the silhouette of the world

Silhouette Photography, is also a large light than the application of photography, usually when the backlight shooting, as the background of the bright part of the point metering, this can make the subject of the future exposure seriously insufficient, forming a strong silhouette, so that only a contour. Photographers often intentionally use this technique to express their deep artistic connotations. The image below is an excellent sketch on the 500PX, is not very tasty, let you think of the Chinese traditional paper-cut art?

▲ Silhouette Effect

How do you shoot the silhouette? First, shoot in the direction of the light source, and then point the light to the bright part of the background (the sky) to get the correct exposure to the background, and the person or thing in the foreground will become a silhouette. But most of the time, the mobile phone or card machine in the design to give users the level of the foreground, and did not join the SLR camera manual metering function, so even want to shoot the silhouette effect is beyond reach.

But it does not matter, the effect of the silhouette can also be made using the later, good photos Windows version of the powerful image basic adjustment function can help you achieve this great light ratio of the art, the bottom right is the picture made with a good silhouette effect. It looks very different from the original, but the steps are very simple.

▲ before and after effect comparison

The first step, open a good photo, import pictures, in the top menu bar above select "Crop/adjust", the right side of the adjustment bar click "Color Adjustment." Because the light point in the photo was not aligned with the backlight, the exposure was inaccurate and the shadow of the foreground figure was still in detail. In order to make up for the lack of shooting, we reduce the exposure value, fine-tuning the shadow to make the character closer to the silhouette of the state.

▲ Select photos

The second step is to adjust the color curve. Small series on the right side of the curve to take a coordinate point, by increasing the background and the character of the light ratio makes the characters completely into silhouette, and the sky brightness and level of sense are still retained.

Tips: At the top you can see that the color order curve is a function of the histogram table, in the curve adjustment of the image of the darkened, middle harmonic high light through the Red line segment to express. The lower-left corner of the segment represents the darkened, the upper-right endpoint represents the highlight, the middle transition represents the midtones, the mouse is positioned at a point on the curve, and you can move the curve or increase the coordinates according to your needs. For a point on a line, moving up is highlighted, and moving down is dimming.

▲ Adjust color levels

The third step, the silhouette and sunset is usually the best partner, in order to let the picture to achieve the effect of shock, click on "Color Adjustment", increase the color temperature value to the picture as a sunset when the atmosphere, while the white balance red value, make the color of the sunset more thick.

▲ Adjust the color temperature

The fourth step, in the basic adjustment to do the final rendering, increase saturation, make the color of the picture more full of shock.

▲ increase the degree of saturation

Complete. The sketch makes the figure's interaction more profound, the sky sunset and the cloud color rendering also for this kind of "has the friend from afar" The feeling added a poetic sentiment.

▲ Final Effect

In addition to silhouette, skillfully use the color curve function of a good picture, but also can create more texture different pictures, as long as you dare to explore and try, your photos will become a master-class works.