Top 10 Tips For Summer - Photographing Silhouettes

3. Try silhouettes

Photographing silhouettes is a great way of conveying mystery, drama and emotion in your pictures, and the power of the summer sun presents the perfect opportunity to try them.

To do this you need to position the subject in front of the light source – most likely the sun or sky – and take your meter reading off the background, rather than the subject.

Subjects with a strong, distinctive shape make the best silhouettes, such as trees and people in interesting poses.