Silhouettes

[mistress_elaine]

If there's one thing I've learned over the last year, photography-wise, it is that I love shooting against the sun. There's something about silhouettes which makes me go, "Ooooooh..." whenever I see one. So I relished the opportunity to take an early-evening walk in Stirling's old town, where a nice old cemetery and the castle where Mary Queen of

Comments

[taotianone]

i like all of these, but i think the very first one is the best. i like the way the eye is drawn back and forth between the sunburst on the left and the statue of "The Lone Snogger" on the right -- dueling focal points.

i also like the way the tree trunk leans into the image in the second one.

i wonder if that black spot business is the camera somehow trying to protect itself from burning out an area of receptors on it's sensitivity plate? i don't really know how these things work, but i recall one of the early moon landings when the astronauts lost live tv picture coverage from carelessly pointing the camera at the sun and destroying the internal sensor. i suppose these things have evolved a lot since then.

i never think of the rule of thirds as a "rule" -- just an observation about how the human brain responds to visual stimuli. thinking about it lets us often make our pictures seem more interesting than they otherwise would.

[glissarine]

I really like these shots. All the silhouette shots, especially, are interesting in their own right. Even the silhouette of the bench provides interesting lines and shapes. The contrasts are great and your toning is perfect each time (or at least on my screen it is).

[nathsolnyshko]

With some delay, an "Happy Birthday!" Miss Mistress Elaine !!!!

[zancro]

Happy Birthday soon.

[zancro]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOON.