Another trick is to make sure your flash is off or doesn’t fire. If you miss golden hour and sunrise or sunset, you can still make silhouettes in the middle of the day, but think in black and white. Learn more about understanding light in Chapter 3 in Learn the Art of Bird Photography. To get lots of color behind the bird, take your silhouettes during golden hour and up to half an hour after sunset, or half an hour before sunrise. Shooting early or late in the day adds color, so try for the bold colors of early morning or later evening. Also, start out with very distinct shapes, or move around to get the best point of view, so the images are clean and distinct. For bird photographers, we’re most likely shooting up into the sky, so the background will be open and clean.
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With silhouettes, you want to make sure you have a clean background, free of any clutter or distracting elements. This means your shadow is actually pointing away, 180-degrees away from the bird. Instead of pointing your shadow towards the birds with the light behind you, you put the light in front of you, and the bird between you and the light. Silhouettes can be bold, striking, stunning images with intense color, and that dramatic feel to them can enhance your image collection and evoke feelings and emotions from your viewer.Ĭreating silhouettes is the opposite of what you normally do in bird photography.
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by our friend and master bird photographer Tim Boyer.
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