Before photography, the silhouette was a popular form of portraiture more affordable than oil painting, where the outline of a face in profile was cut in black. “It was very popular to have a ...

Find out why winter's a great time to shoot silhouettes and pick up a few silhouette photography tips in our latest 'how-to' guide.

A silhouette is a dark image in which th subject is against the brighter light. The first silhouette originated in 1850s in France. Silhouette is an illustrated outline filled in with a solid color, ...

The first step in turning a photo into a silhouette is to isolate the part of the photo that will be the silhouette. That part of the photo would be known as the subject. A silhouette needs to have ...

It isn’t often we ask our Photo Challengers to minimise the detail of their chosen subject to the greatest extent possible. But of course that’s just exactly what a silhouette is: a solid, featureless ...

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