if you somehow clicked on this video without reading the title let me explain it's a video on Silhouettes and how to shoot them going to be looking at all the different types of Silhouettes how to make them using hard light soft light daylight NightLight no light and every other kind of light you can think of so I hope you enjoy the video see you in a sec you could do it like a cooking show this is the best place to get fresh produce for all your silhouette needs in London but Market let's get involved delicious so here's an area that you might not suspect would be suitable for Silhouettes looking around to the naked eye it just looks like a fairly gloomy part of B market but let me show you what it looks like on my camera this area in the middle that's kind of cutting out by the roof of this place between the floor you you can see a clear band of brighter area so what I would need to do is to get my subjects framed within this area here so like this I mean one shot one kill that is cooking with sha nice to meet you nice to meet you too what's your name uh key yeah for your video though thank you say hi to say hi to everyone on YouTube oh my God hi good thank you bye [Music] so I've done a couple of candids I've explained a few photos we've now recruiting the help of the wonderful Al designer and creative extraordinaire because it's December and we're losing the light and I want to get a few more examples in controlled circumstances to show you everything El does isn't candid someone's going to write now just for the hell of it but doesn't matter cuz comments count as engagement pushes us up the lists on so write what you want we don't care prefer if it's something nice though so we're going to create a silhouette using a puddle in an overcast crappy day like this who said you can't make Silhouettes in miserable locations a lot of the shots I've been getting today are quite soft light Silhouettes it's just a matter of using the sky reflected in this puddle is is enough contrast to fully silhouette someone and I also quite like the reflection element check out our reflection video [Music] here here we see going to need a little bit of magic how are we achieving the silhouette she's wearing dark clothes so I'm metering always for the brightest point in my frame what was that he said don't rewind I'm metering for the brightest point in the frame my exact settings for you settings nerds out there exposure compensation minus 1. 1 and 2/3 f8 1. 5 M distance and 24 mm lens and the recipe is this go go [Music] go it's another silhouette CH bad [Music] what can I commission a poem about Silhouettes Silhouettes I see and what's inspired that I'm a photographer I love Silhouettes difficult one silhouette what rooms a silhouette don't worry about that pirouette pette not bad not bad we should get you involved I think yeah just drive into the ground and then not so many Rhymes but there you go hey cheers guys black obsidian flickering archetypal platonic forms rendered and brute cartography grace and elegance rendered in Star colorlessness the form unified undivided the turning the flashing now always one it's deep he's like the street photographer of poetry any place any time lay down a rhyme see what I did there I've got brown [Music] hair okay let me explain this shot so 24 mil 1.
2 M aperture 1. 4 I'm lifting up the camera high so I can get her silhouetted against the light on the water which looks something like that uh we'll put up on screen and this area here plenty of of exposure to be working with the difference between the exposure level on the hat and the hair and everything compared to uh how bright the surface of the water is is considerably different and will result in a silhouette so the outline of the hat looks great you got the leading line of black FR Bridge looks fantastic even on a 24 you can get a pretty shallow depth of field so so we've got great subject isolation just beautiful [Music] rendering hello we've picked the worst spot to film that sounds like one of the things in War of the World [Music] oh my God come close come close We've Got Big Ben how of the parliament so I want to get a seagull perfectly in between one you're photographing a bird it's got to be quite fast so to freeze the action I'm going to set 2,000th of a second I'm going to go for F4 because I'm not sure if the bird's going to pop up here or if it's going to be in the distance a bit more slightly too fast for me to to react to probably so I'm just going to give myself that edge with F4 probably going to be quite a high ISO around 5,000 6,400 something like that but that's okay I don't care uh people are often too obsessed with keeping the isos low and clean now a lot of the shots we were doing before required uh very stop down exposure comp of likeus 2os - 1.
