A good photograph doesn’t always have every detail perfectly lit. Silhouette photography obscures the details and instead emphasizes shape and form. Photographing a silhouette isn’t necessarily ...

When it comes to scenes with high-contrast lighting, your camera’s sensor struggles to capture the details of both the foreground subject and the background. Despite what one of the commonly taught ...

What role do the shadows hold in this image? Canon 5D IV | Canon 70-300 F4-5.6 | 128mm | ISO 400 | 1/500 sec | F7.1 Sandwich ...

It can be tough to get great photos of black pets, but not if you keep these tips in mind. Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She ...

When taking photographs the light at the beginning and the end of the day is some of the best to work with. To get the most out of it you might think you have to go out and shoot stunning vistas but ...

Photographer Dona Laurita possesses a remarkable gift. In her portraits, Laurita captures the beauty and brilliance of her subjects — without ever showing their faces. Much of Laurita’s work has to do ...

It is strange and entirely delightful that the silhouette still enchants us. The shadow form, which reduces the three-dimensional world to lines and contours, dates back millennia before it became a ...