Still an useful tutorial for signmakers wrote by Stephen Dow in the Element K Journals !
Digital cameras are mostly auto-everything -- useful when you want to capture a moment but less so when trying to achieve an effect like a silhouette. But you can take silhouettes with your digital camera if you learn a few tricks. Here's how :
I assume these guys that write artices need to fill a certain amout of space to get paid. This article could have been a simple paragraph. Basically they're saying, employ backlighting, and push the button down halfway focused on the background, then re frame and push it the rest of the way down.