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My wife did the flowers and I had the job of taking pics. I increased the contrast and then reduced the number of colors to 2 (black and white). My idea was a traditional looking photo. Yes the comments about overdoing the post processing are correct, but I liked it anyway...
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looks a little to fake. You went a little crazy in photoshop. Adjusting the contrast does not make it a silhouette. It looks like you took a paint brush and colored their faces black.
Looks a touch forced by adjusting levels or curves. I think for it to really work, I'd have just done the heads like one of those old fashioned cut outs you see in oval frames in a Victorian parlor. WIth just their faces blacked out, it seems a touch off to me. Hope this is helpful. ;~D
If only he was looking a bit more to his right (to see his features more). But I suppose the puts more focus on the bried, where it's "supposed" to be.
i dont think silhouette means make all the details in the photo go completely black with abuse of the levels tool. Meter for your sky and then expose for your subject with the light behind them to start. this looks like it may be a nice picture somewhere behind all the crazy overprocessing.
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