Silhouette Subjects Indoors

Taking silhouettes is a fun way to create simple bold compositions and though most silhouettes are created outdoors against the sky, you can also create them indoors.

You can also create some clever silhouettes in other indoor situations. I photographed my wife in front of a huge aquarium window at the Atlanta Aquarium, for instance, just by hanging back and watching as she waited for something interesting (a beluga whale in this case) to swim past. I shot several frames of her just standing there.

The secret of a good silhouette is having a bright or colorful background (preferably both) and exposing for the background. Exposure isn't critical and you can always saturate the black shapes and the colors later in editing.