wedding silhouets

[karlwilson1986]

hello again sorry to be a pain but i was just thinking

The photos you see of brides infront of windows in silhouets

What's the trick please I end up getting the person lit up when I want them blacked out !!!


Thanks
karl

 

[Forbiddenbiker]

Can you stick a photo up?

Like any silhouette the aim is to expose for the bright part of the scene and if the difference between the brightness is great then everything else will be thrown into darkness.

 

[karlwilson1986]

nope he he

Ill go back to the drawing board
Thank you

Karl

 

[inaneredstripe]

METER ON THE WINDOW ETC.

 

[Forbiddenbiker]

was it something I said.

Try this.
Put your camera into manual mode. lowest iso, and adjust the light meter to spot.

Frame your shot with the centre spot (the spot meter spot) aimed outside at a bright bit, and using the light meter as a guide adjust your aperture and shutter to align the meter to get a good exposure of the bright bit. Set it in manual, and reframe on your subject as you want, focus and take the shot … see what happens.

 

[alastairb]

nope he he

Ill go back to the drawing board
Thank you

Karl

not being funny, but it becomes alot easier to give taylored advice if photos are shown as then its easiest to tell what you are doing wrong. but as said above use manual and meter off the light coming through the window, and i often find its helpful to raise the black levels after in camera raw to help ensure that the forground is dark

 

[justinitus]

was it something I said.

Try this.
Put your camera into manual mode. lowest iso, and adjust the light meter to spot.

Frame your shot with the centre spot (the spot meter spot) aimed outside at a bright bit, and using the light meter as a guide adjust your aperture and shutter to align the meter to get a good exposure of the bright bit. Set it in manual, and reframe on your subject as you want, focus and take the shot … see what happens.

I read about this technique, plus a bit of fill-in flash if needed on the bride.

Never done it myself either, would suggest a trip to the local library or bookstore and grab a wedding photography book. Scott Kelby's books (Vol 1,2 & 3) all have tips for wedding photography.

 

[alastairb]

I read about this technique, plus a bit of fill-in flash if needed on the bride.

if you are trying to silhouet the bride why would you need fill in flash?

 

[desantnik]

Yes, fill flash will illuminate the thing you want to get as dark as possible!

As others have said, meter off of the brightest thing (the sky outside the window), lock the exposure with the exposure lock button, recompose and focus, click. Job done.

 

[DiddyDave]

was it something I said.

Try this.
Put your camera into manual mode. lowest iso, and adjust the light meter to spot.

Frame your shot with the centre spot (the spot meter spot) aimed outside at a bright bit, and using the light meter as a guide adjust your aperture and shutter to align the meter to get a good exposure of the bright bit. Set it in manual, and reframe on your subject as you want, focus and take the shot … see what happens.

Or, the easy way , if it's on auto (any auto) zoom in to fill the frame with the window, lock exposure, and zoom out to include the bride

DD

 

[Forbiddenbiker]

Or, the easy way , if it's on auto (any auto) zoom in to fill the frame with the window, lock exposure, and zoom out to include the bride

DD

Only if you know where and how to use the focus lock button, on a Nikon I think he'll find it needs to be held in by default, tis tricky, and possibly both AE and AF so that ain't going to help when he recomposes.

Also what the heck is anyone going to learn about exposure and settings doing it the easy way.

 

[desantnik]

Only if you know where and how to use the focus lock button, on a Nikon I think he'll find it needs to be held in by default, tis tricky, and possibly both AE and AF so that ain't going to help when he recomposes.

Dunno about the rest of the Nikon's but on the D300/D700/D3 you can set the AE lock button to be a toggle switch... click and *lock* and get on with it.

Simples.

 

[Forbiddenbiker]

Yes they all do it the same way I think.

For the OP. I meant the exposure lock not focus lock button in the comment above, same button for both on my Nikon depending on the pre-set.

 

[justinitus]

if you are trying to silhouet the bride why would you need fill in flash?

Apologies, I'll keep quiet - should have read the OP's post more thoroughly - I had read something about shooting the bride in front of a window - nothing about silhouette!!



In my defence, at the time of posting I was trying to finish my second bowl of coco pops before the wife got up.

 

[AndWhyNot]

Remember you can adjust contrast (in camera or in PP) to change the effect from true silhouette to something with a bit more detail (in the form and texture of the dress)

 

[Raymond Lin]

Like this ? (Bride standing in front of her dress)