Ever taken a photo of someone with the sun directly behind them and felt disappointed that their face looked too dark to see? That's because the background light was so much brighter than the light on their face that your camera couldn’t capture both. Professional photographers don’t fight that fact, they have fun with it by using (or creating) light that turns their subjects dark enough to become silhouettes in their compositions. Couples in these types of photos often look like sculptures come to life, and when the photographers are this good, silhouettes are nothing short of brilliant.

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