Before we wrap everything up, we're going to briefly talk about silhouettes. And basically, silhouettes are made by having a very bright background sitting behind the subject you're trying to have be the silhouette, or it doesn't have to be a person, it can be a thing, you know, you might want rings or something like that. Now most people pull it off by messing with camera settings and having the subjects stand very close to the camera, but also have the background not affect the character himself so he can sit in a shaded space or something. And then you would focus on the very bright spots of the background, and the camera would adjust and it would dark in the person standing in front of the camera. Now the way you pull it off in a studio setting where you can basically control pretty much every light source in the scene.

You can have it to where the subject himself doesn't have any light on him at all. And it will work equally as good or probably even better. Because the camera won't need to adjust that much, in order to create a silhouette, now the concept will still be the same, you would have the background be lit up, and then you would have your subject stand just behind the lights, because you don't want any light on him or else the camera is going to have to make some adjustments and you're probably going to be messing with the look of the shot and then the effect won't quite work. So basically, you would have the lights pointing out, and then you would have the subject sit right behind the lights. Now as long as he's behind the lights themselves, and he's not basically receiving any light, then he would basically act as a silhouette.

Now you can be very far or very close to the camera. This doesn't matter as long as he's, he's visible Of course in the scene. He has to sit behind a light so that he is illuminated. So that just about wraps this lesson up. And that's it