Silhouettes

[Esoteric Vision]

Need some advice on how to take silhouette shots of people mourning at a grave site. What settings should I use?

[birdman59]

What seems to work best for me is to shoot facing light source with subject in between and expose for lightest part. The subject will be way under exposed and just a shadow.
Bracket your shots to get the results you want.

[deci]

When I try and do a silhouette of our cats, I

1) Shoot RAW (tweak PP in ACR)
2) As birdman said - expose for the lightest part (which I presume in this case will be sky)
3) Again - as birdman said bracket your shots.

In PP (if your software allows it), once you've converted to B+W open 'levels', click on the lightest part of what you want to appear black with the black eyedropper and click on the darkest part of the pic you want to appear white with the white eyedropper. Clean up 'stray' lights and darks with burning and dodging or paint over the bits of what should be black, with black and sample the lightest areas to paint over what 'should' be included in them.

HTH