Jumped out of bed with this crazy idea that's been lingering in my head for a long time. "I have everything I need—I think." I said as I rushed to pull out my DIY softbox. Drawn by the few silhouette shots I had taken, my mom and brother wanted theirs, too. That's how these shots happened. Lemme know what you think.
For these shots, I used the pro settings for the camera on my phone. Set the ISO at 200, shutter speed to 1/10, and kept the focus on auto and left the grid lines on (because they always are). The softbox has imperfections, so these settings were the sweet spot to hide them and also give me what I wanted.
And, of course, I had a tripod for the job. Then I took the raw photos to Adobe Lightroom and did the final touches. I had to export some to Snapseed for some things that I couldn't do with a freemium account on Lightroom, like 'Healing' to clean up some patches on the softbox and 'Expand' to adjust aspect ratio.
The idea was to tell different stories with each of them, sort of, so I tried including things like my strat guitar, podcast mic, and also my mom praying. Mom didn't initially think the praying would look nice, but guess who now says that's her favourite? "Trust the process, Mom."
I could only take a few distinct shots. Then I added text with Canva.
I'm not sure what I'll do next, but this first try at silhouettes is encouraging. And it's my entry for the #monomad challenge.
All images shot on Redmi Note 10 Pro
Posted Using InLeo Alpha
With the equipment used these are basically studio quality, one would hardly believe it. Great work man, you truly have what you need.
!PIZZA
I know, right?
Sometimes, all we need is right there to get started.
Thanks, man.
$PIZZA slices delivered:
@b0s(1/5) tipped @olujay
great work...🔥
Thanks!
Wowww!!!! Your mom’s “praying pose” is my favourite! I have a new wallpaper now🤭….no, I’m not asking for your permission 🏃♀️
Wow! Just wow.
But please don’t come and take my photography work from me, I beg you!
I figured you'd like that one more. No worries with the wallpaper. Just be sending the daily commissions as agreed
How dare I?
We both know who's working something fire
Not colourful yet beautiful, each of the silhouettes are. I liked them more because they all have little highlights on the ear, eyes, nose and even mouth.... giving the picture more details.
My observant gee
They initially had colour, but I thought to see what B&W would look like
And they look very good.
Will you be exploring more of this ?
These backlit portraits and silhouettes of the models are perfect in their compositional harmony.
All I knew was to give "something" a try, We've here we are... Thank you, fren
That's studio quality stuff Jay. Nice :)
I guess it is. No one has to know. Thank you, Ray. Onto the next.
I love the silhouette based photographs, I feel they are very original and very striking. Excellent photos!
I appreciate that. Thanks.
Lol, that mom's photo is nice. These black and white shots look cool. Good job Jay.
How's the weekend going?
Thank you, Becky. The weekend is smooth, actually. How's yours?
Smooth too👍
One of Olujay's wonders. Still saw you beards showing, lols. I must say I admire that praying photo of mom. If you can, make a portrait of that. Would be very beautiful
Thanks, man. I actually did turn that photo into portrait and even a wallpaper.
That's good of you
Congratulations. Today's #monomad third place is yours.
Thank You very much for participating and for being part of the Black And White Community!
Awesome! That's very encouraging. Thank you.