Overview
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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.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Exercise files
- What is a silhouette?
- Get the shot
- Post-production
- Finding the light
- Angle
- Separation
- Think outside the box
- 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
- Fixing the horizon
- Basics panel
- Contrast
- RGB
- Targeted Adjustment tool
- Saturation
- Hue
- Luminance
- Distortion and vignetting
- Chromatic aberation
- Using the histogram
- Fine tune with the Adjustment brush
- Split toning
- Before and afters
- Workflow movie: Make adjustments
- Gradient filter
- Fixing banding and haloing
- Color overlay
- Recap
