In My hand

Hello, and this is my post on my photographing people project. For this project I chose to do a silhouette. I will now say from personal experience that you must have a good backlight for a silhouette as well as a very sharp image meaning a small apereture. The best backlight in my opinion is the setting sun. This light can be difficult to acquire if the weather does not participate as it did fore me, so have patience and plan ahead for a photo like this. Also bring a tripod for stability. A second person is a must to ensure that you get the angle, proper back light, and posture you want. I would advise that you use a low shutter speed and high apereture setting for large depth of field. This particular photo was emulated from a woman holding the sun in her hand at the beach. This photo was taken on Saturday, January 10th. It is of my mother posing like she is holding the sun creating an optical allusion that she actually is. I cut off her feet to focus more on her face
and cut out distractions.

Settings:
Photographer: Robert DeValentine
Subject: Mother
Purpose: assignment
Camera: Cannon Rebel EOS X
Shutter:
Top-bottom: 1/1250, 1/1000, 1/1600, 1/2000 of second.
Apereture: setting 9
Tripod: yes
Manual: yes
Flash: no
ISO: 200

Notes: I am encountering trouble putting up my example and will post as soon as possible. Please notify me if I am missing or you would like more information. Please post grammar errors so corrections will be made. Also I could not get a good focus on my subject I truly recommend a high aperature.