-- Posted by Lewdness at 12:01 pm on Nov. 1, 2008 My friends and I went to Newport earlier this week and I got to fiddling with my camera. The one above is one of the pictures I took, and there are more like that. But is there any way to not only capture silhouettes? Like, is there some sort of setting I need to get the faces of the people instead of shadow looking things? I've got a Nikon D40. -- Posted by NEGATIVE0 at 12:02 pm on Nov. 1, 2008 ... no? just lighting is necessary. -- Posted by Autumnal at 12:03 pm on Nov. 1, 2008 I don't know, but it's a pretty nice picture :) -- Posted by reev at 12:04 pm on Nov. 1, 2008 well for 1, you have the subjects facing towards the sun so that any light is going onto them, and isn't behind them. and for how dark it seems right there, you'd probably want to have your aperture set rather high, a flash would help too. -- Posted by Lewdness at 12:06 pm on Nov. 1, 2008 Quote: from reev at 12:04 pm on Nov. 1, 2008 well for 1, you have the subjects facing towards the sun so that any light is going onto them, and isn't behind them. and for how dark it seems right there, you'd probably want to have your aperture set rather high, a flash would help too. I tried flash, but that completely blackened the background. I didn't bother with the aperture though. I'll definitely try that out next time. Thanks, Reev. -- Posted by Al Legator at 12:06 pm on Nov. 1, 2008 I don't know the D-40 but it seems all you really need is some fill flash (small amount on the front of your subject in this case) or full flash which would illuminate them more but may de-emphasise or wash out the background.  I assume the problem was either that the flash was off or not on the right setting. -- Posted by Lewdness at 12:09 pm on Nov. 1, 2008 Quote: from Al Legator at 12:06 pm on Nov. 1, 2008 I don't know the D-40 but it seems all you really need is some fill flash (small amount on the front of your subject in this case) or full flash which would illuminate them more but may de-emphasise or wash out the background. I assume the problem was either that the flash was off or not on the right setting. Full flash absolutely killed the background, yeah, so I just just turned that off. I'm not sure about this fill flash though. I'll check my manual and see how that goes. Thank you! -- Posted by NEGATIVE0 at 12:10 pm on Nov. 1, 2008 IT'S ALL IN THE LIGHTING. -- Posted by Napster the Hacker at 12:16 pm on Nov. 1, 2008 you cant do any thing to get the faces, except photoshop the pics and replace the faces with some thing else lol -- Posted by wink at 1:46 pm on Nov. 1, 2008 Try a night settting or dawn if u have that on your camera -- Posted by Porkie at 3:45 pm on Nov. 1, 2008 It's just the lighting you gotta get right. -- Posted by girlbythewhirlpool at 11:54 am on Nov. 2, 2008 use flash on a fairly weak setting to fill it in slightly? actually i have a feeling that the 'night' setting on them works okay on shots like this. obv you could shoot from another angle, so not against the light, but then you wouldn't have the pretty background.