Silhouette Outtake: Undercover
Hiding behind a curtain in a suspect's apartment, and then your feet will give you away? Not for Tintin and Snowy. They just placed toy statues of themselves behind the curtain to fool the villain, got the evidence, and escaped from the scene before he even realised what was going on ;-)
I've noticed that there was some ambiguity, or confusion about what a silhouette is, and what is not, for MM's theme "Silhouettes". Some pictures were not accepted, because they show shadows instead of silhouettes. However, I've also noticed that several pictures in the - very beautiful - example gallery www.flickr.com/photos/130205975@N03/galleries/72157684149... show shadows. And while the moderator warned that she did not consider every capture in the gallery as a silhouette, she did not point out which captures, and why. Which may have lead to misunderstandings, at least for some of us, because in the theme's description shadows were not specifically excluded from the theme, either.
In this capture (and my previous, "official" MM one) the subjects were placed very close to the curtain, and very close to the window, the interior is featureless (except for the texture of the curtain), and the edges match the outline of the subject(s) exactly. So in my understanding I have created both a shadow, and a silhouette. There may even be a little confusion regarding what a silhouette is when it comes to different languages, because, for instance, in German the term Schattenriss (Schatten = shadow) is described as a silhouette as well, and even includes the word shadow; and in English the term for this specific art technique is only "silhouette" (it's the same in French, Italian, Spanish...).
Silhouette Outtake: Undercover
Hiding behind a curtain in a suspect's apartment, and then your feet will give you away? Not for Tintin and Snowy. They just placed toy statues of themselves behind the curtain to fool the villain, got the evidence, and escaped from the scene before he even realised what was going on ;-)
I've noticed that there was some ambiguity, or confusion about what a silhouette is, and what is not, for MM's theme "Silhouettes". Some pictures were not accepted, because they show shadows instead of silhouettes. However, I've also noticed that several pictures in the - very beautiful - example gallery www.flickr.com/photos/130205975@N03/galleries/72157684149... show shadows. And while the moderator warned that she did not consider every capture in the gallery as a silhouette, she did not point out which captures, and why. Which may have lead to misunderstandings, at least for some of us, because in the theme's description shadows were not specifically excluded from the theme, either.
In this capture (and my previous, "official" MM one) the subjects were placed very close to the curtain, and very close to the window, the interior is featureless (except for the texture of the curtain), and the edges match the outline of the subject(s) exactly. So in my understanding I have created both a shadow, and a silhouette. There may even be a little confusion regarding what a silhouette is when it comes to different languages, because, for instance, in German the term Schattenriss (Schatten = shadow) is described as a silhouette as well, and even includes the word shadow; and in English the term for this specific art technique is only "silhouette" (it's the same in French, Italian, Spanish...).