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Silhouettes for Beginning SLR Photographers

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Uploaded by on Mar 15, 2009

This is a quick lesson on how to set your SLR camera to shoot silhouettes with a sunset. Enjoy! Brought to you by: http://www.michaelthemaven.com

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  • When you take the picture it dont look like the processed picture (how do you give those vibrant colors, it is on photoshop?)

  • I used a Photoshop Action Set I have developed on it, they are called Michael Andrew Lollipops and allow you to pop individual color hues very quickly, in this case, it was blue and yellow. Check out "popyourcolors" dot com for more info.

  • Great vid.. Are you switching it to manual mode so you can change shutter speed to darker the model. If not, couldn't you just leave it in P mode.

  • Thats right. Exposure lock would work too, though some beginners are confused with this idea. I teach it this particualr way for a few reasons. One of which, if your subject is too close, in P mode the camera will expose for your subject and blow out the sky. Metering in P mode will give you a ball park exposure for the sky, and then you can tweak in manual depending on how dark you want your silhouette.

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  • eh.... Laurie is HOT!

    lol thanks, great tutorial

  • what about the iso?

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  • thankss so much but yeah, iso?

  • You have the wisdom of a five or six thousand year old man.

  • great tips

  • Still having trouble getting my maternity Silhouettes completely black what any recommendations?

  • hi do you need to off the flash

  • @Runaldo77

    the iso should be set as low as possitble without offsetting your shutter speed

  • Thanks Michael. easiest tutorial on here!

  • Nice bolt-ons

  • man thats easy i'm trying that tomorrow!lol You should change your name to MichaelTheMaaantor....:)

  • man he's good

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