I don't like Silhouettes very much, but I put one up anyway. I focused on the sky, and jacked down the exposure a touch to create that effect. If your monitor's bright, it won't look as good, but all three of mine show the trees as black. Actually, playing with my ancient but awesome Gateway VX900 CRT, I have to go about 7/8 of the way up in the brightness to ruin it, but normally I have the brightness a hair above minimum. On my IBM T84H 18.1" LCD, I can't really play because DVI locks out brightness control, but at the default it's black, and on my old Dell E551, it's black. If I had thought before, I might have darkened the trees more in Photoshop, but I didn't touch the picture at all, figuring it would be fine. We'll see anyway.
I don't like Silhouettes very much, but I put one up anyway. I focused on the sky, and jacked down the exposure a touch to create that effect. If your monitor's bright, it won't look as good, but all three of mine show the trees as black. Actually, playing with my ancient but awesome Gateway VX900 CRT, I have to go about 7/8 of the way up in the brightness to ruin it, but normally I have the brightness a hair above minimum. On my IBM T84H 18.1" LCD, I can't really play because DVI locks out brightness control, but at the default it's black, and on my old Dell E551, it's black. If I had thought before, I might have darkened the trees more in Photoshop, but I didn't touch the picture at all, figuring it would be fine. We'll see anyway.
http://www.caedes.net/Zephir.cgi?lib=Caedes::Infopage&image=JStergis-1188252747.jpg
Thanks in advance