08-20-08 – Silhouettes

//kidding. she might need a sammich.

Eve needs no sammich. Genevieve could stand a sammich or three.

Do bad exposures count?

This isn’t what I was going for (I’ve learned a lot since then about shooting birds against the sky… ;)), but one man’s mistake… ?

I think SS’s is good for a silhouette… but I think Caradocs is really a framed picture of a model. If the silhouette was the subject I think my eye would be drawn to it quicker… the out of focusness of it probably, but also that the model is perfectly in focus, highlighted, and in that 2/3rds zone. (well, if you look at the frame formed by the photographer.)

my vote don’t count, but I’d say no.

I’d say no to the shot of the model. I’m torn on the balloon….can something translucent also be a silhouette?

Do bad exposures count?

This isn’t what I was going for (I’ve learned a lot since then about shooting birds against the sky… ;)), but one man’s mistake… ?

I wouldn’t argue it’s entry, but I wouldn’t vote for it either. It’s not all that attractive.

I probably wouldn’t vote for it either, even if I submitted it. 😉 It was just a sample I had at hand of various different sets of images that are “camera exposure isn’t what I wanted”, but could fit the theme.

I’ve been looking for definitions of silhouette to see whether caradoc’s image was a “silhoette”, and found one reference to “… the primary subject…”, but other than one definition mentioning “primary”, everything else is just outlined, dark object against light foreground, etc.

I would tend to think that the photographer IS a silhouette, but the eyes (mine, at least) are caught by the model first which would diminish the impact.

And, just to throw a fly into the soup, dictionary.com has the following as some of the definitions:
n. “1. an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow) “
v. “1. project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette”

I think that as long as the “no shadows” restriction is followed that anything involving “dark object on a light background”-style or other definitions should be allowed and let the voters decide.

By the way, in searching the files I found more silhouette stuff than I can use. I plan on avoiding the ant-on-leaf shadow issue. However, I consider that style a silhouette and if someone else uses a good photo like that, it’ll get my vote.

I’m interested in what sort of variety we’ll get tonight.

Quick reply here since I’m in a meeting (ugh). On the photographer/model shot I think it’s borderline as well, primarily since the part of the image with the model is so strong. So if I got a bunch of votes, which I expect it would, I wouldn’t be confident that people voted because they liked the silhouette part or because they were entranced by the model. So I wouldn’t submit it personally if I had another option. But since there’s a few people that are equally undecided, I’m OK with letting it go.