I am a member of a cowboy church. The people there are real cowboys and really ride horses. So I decided to take advantage of this opportunity today and catch one of these beautiful animals standing behind the barn.
Minimal post enhancements including some cropping and exposure/tone shaping.
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I just felt I had to chime in here. If you'd shot this chestnut (not black) horse at just ISO 100-200, and possibly at a much smaller aperture, you probably would have got a decent silhouette. Wondering why you needed to shoot a horse that's just standing there at 1/6400 - hell I catch my broncs and bulls going full bore at 1/1250!)
The high ISO has given you masses of grain/noise in the image, which is a vote-killer on this site. Sharpening didn't help. Anyway I hope you'll take the very good advice offered here by myself and others, and perhaps get some practice in at silhouettes. Feel free to PM me with any questions.
The horse has to much detail in it for me as a silhouette. The definition for silhouette is "the dark shape and outline of someone or something visible against a lighter background, especially in dim light" and for me a sharp or outline has no detail and is just a that.......a shape that from that shape I can determine what it is.
This is a shot of a black horse and I can see lots of detail on the black horse (nostrils, eyes, two legs, etc) for me this image does not meet the silhouette challenge.
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