A good photograph doesn’t always have every detail perfectly lit. Silhouette photography obscures the details and instead emphasizes shape and form. Photographing a silhouette isn’t necessarily ...

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.

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It is strange and entirely delightful that the silhouette still enchants us. The shadow form, which reduces the three-dimensional world to lines and contours, dates back millennia before it became a ...

The word "silhouette" comes from a mid-18th century French finance minister Étienne de Silhouette, whose hobby was cutting paper outlines of people’s profiles. Today, a silhouette can be a very ...

Picture a serene beach, famous for its photographic allure, especially at sunset. This setting provides a perfect backdrop where light and shadow dance together, creating an ideal environment for ...

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, ...

There's a bit of mystery to this week's reader photo submissions. The topic was Silhouettes. The winner is Russ Zimmerman of Charleston, and his photo is representative of the city in which he resides ...

If the response to our silhouette challenge is anything to go by, you’d have to say that finding interesting, largely featureless black shapes to photograph can be a real tonic for image makers’ ...

A girl’s silhouette gazes at a flock of monarch butterflies, their orange wings vivid against a bleak wintery backdrop. Titled “From Broken Trees,” the piece, featured at the Colorado Photographic ...