A glorious sunset on Lake Hickory paints the clouds and creates a silhouette of the boat dock
Tag Archives: silhouette
A Horse in the Stall
Pigeon on a Branch Silhouette
We end our series of unusual images of shooting against the light creating traditional silhouettes or a combination of black foregrounds and colorful backgrounds. Here is a normal black silhouette – an image of a person, animal, bird, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black.

Watery Silhouette
An unusual composition of shooting against the light with a lighted sky, but creating silhouettes of domed buildings and a lamp post in Munich, Germany. The splashing naturally lighted water in the foreground adds an interesting element to the image.

Tree Silhouette at Sunset
Shooting against the light at a colorful sunset in Hickory, North Carolina, the trees and rays of the sun appear as silhouettes

Shot Against the Sun at a Beach
As an experiment of shooting against the sun at a beach in Mandvi, Gujarat, India, it was surprising to see silhouette-like images of animals, people and wooden cabana.

Saguaro Silhouettes
Shot against the sun in the blue sky created silhouette-like portrayal of saguaros.

Water Fountain Silhouettes
This image creates, while shooting against the sun of a water fountain, silhouette of the building but highlighting the spurting water and reflections

Shooting Against a Sunrise in Acadia Park
Shooting against a sunrise viewing from Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park in Maine create somewhat silhouettes of people watching the rising sun

Tree Silhouettes
Shooting in winter against a sun creates tree silhouettes in this image

Shot Against a Striking Sunset
Not a true silhouette, but this image shot against a sunset in Santa Monica, California creates silhouettes of a bird, tree and a fence.

Magical Lights in the Clouds
The evening sun lights up the clouds in a magical way and also creating a silhouette of the mountains

San Francisco Skyline Silhouette
We end our series of images from San Francisco – The Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park, and Golden Gate Bridge – with a silhouette of the city skyline.

Sunrise Silhouettes
Striking silhouettes of the pier and people created by the sunrise at Sunset Beach, North Carolina


Done for the Day
The sun has set at Sunset Beach, North Carolina and beach-goers walk home silhouetted by the sunset.


Sunset in Somnath
At a distance of 750 meters from Somnath Temple is the coast of the Arabian Sea. Here are images of the sunset with concrete ocean barriers, to protect the temple, partially silhouetted against the sun.



Teton Silhouettes
We end the series of images from Grand Teton National Park with silhouettes of the mountains with a few lingering clouds in a blue sky.

Silhouettes – Trees
The sun behind the trees creates detailed silhouettes of the branches

Silhouettes – Watching a Sunrise
People watching the first sunrise in the United States at Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Maine are silhouetted against a bright sun

Silhouettes – Bird and a Tree
Silhouette photography is all about getting your lighting right. A silhouette effect is created when a light source is placed behind your subject, with little to no light in front of your subject. Here the bird and tree are silhouetted against a serene sky.


