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Silhouettes

Antonio Correia

Antonio Correia

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In the small group of amateur photographers I gather every month we decided to make some photographs under the theme "Silhouettes" to be presented on the first tuesday of August, tomorrow I mean.

I made one photograph on purpose for this assignment. I wanted to show that silhouettes can be defined as great colored shapes contrasting with dark backgrounds.

However, the second proposition is the recovery of two photographs some years old: a portrait made in Indonesia and a rotated curtain I photographed in USA, two years ago.

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Bill McCarthy

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Antonio Correia said:
In the small group of amateur photographers I gather every month we decided to make some photographs under the theme "Silhouettes" to be presented on the first tuesday of August, tomorrow I mean.

I made one photograph on purpose for this assignment. I wanted to show that silhouettes can be defined as great colored shapes contrasting with dark backgrounds.

However, the second proposition is the recovery of two photographs some years old: a portrait made in Indonesia and a rotated curtain I photographed in USA, two years ago.

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Antonio,
I find that your first image is elegant and meets your expressed desire in this silhouette theme, but I find your black and white to be beautifully haunting. Very nice job bringing the two together for a stunning piece of work(art).
Best, Bill
 
Jarmo Juntunen

Jarmo Juntunen

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Both represent your excellent standard of work! The portrait really stays at the back my head and refuses to leave...
 
Antonio Correia

Antonio Correia

Well-known member
Thank you Bill and Jarmo for your comments. :)
But I think I was wrong when I called these photograph as silhouettes.

"...A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject..." according to the Wikipedia...

A silhouette is shown bellow in a photograph I made a couple of years ago with the iPhone.
The one on the bottom is quite recent.
Both are more representative of what a silhouettes is :)

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