Silhouettes offer many chances for interesting, decorative pictures—and ere sassy to take, indeers or out.
Outdoors, place your subject on high ground, with the sun squarely behind him, and shoot from a lów camera position. Use a smaller lens opening than usual, to provide less-than-normal exposure and to subdue shadow detail.
Indoors, there are two -simple methods. For one, use a large-size photo bulb, in cardboard reflector. Place it on the floor a few feet from one wall, and pointed toward the wall. This creates a "bright spot." Darken the rest of the room, let the subject stand in shadow between the camera and bright spot—and shoot.
Another method permits unusual silhouettes. For this, stretch a white sheet smoothly across an open doorway, leaving no wrinkles. Place a strong light—such as a photo bulb in reflector—five feet behind it. In the other room, pose your subject about two feet in front of the brightly illuminated sheet—and fire away.
"With the sheet, novel effects are possible. For example, you can show a person juggling any number of tennis balls or bottles, with most of them in mid-air. Actually, they are just cut out of black. paper and pinned to the sheet—but in the picture they look quite real.
Exposure time for silhouettes varies with the strength of the light. With a box camera and one large photo bulb in cardboard reflector, try "time" exposures of one to three seconds.
the camera on a firm support, and be careful not to move it during exposure.
Usually, silhouette subjects should be shown in profile. The room in which the camera is used must be kept as dark as possible.
"Anyone can acquire the knack of silhouette-making, and it is great fun to work out story-telling idees for this type of snapshot. Try some, and you'll find they offer delightful pastime for the long evenings. heart trick. He was also quite sure that North had a long, solid spade suit on which South could discard a number of losers if he were first permitted to get rid of West's sure trump entry, South seemed to have most of his cards in hearts and diamonds, the two suits he had bid. and West feared that even if South had a losing card in clubs, he could quickly discard it on North's spade, so that a club lead would be futile. West therefore chose the only lead which seemed likely to establish an immediate trick—he opened the four of diamonds. Since East had the diamond queen, South's ace was forced out on the first lead. Being unable to draw trumps without giving West the lead, South could not make his contract; and his later method of play permitted the defenders to defeat the contract two tricks. With any opening but the diamond the slam would have been made.
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