Most of the time I use the Shadows slider in Lightroom’s Basic panel to open up shadows and reveal detail. For silhouettes, darkening shadows is the way to go. Here's a quick video on how simple and effective this technique is.
Scott Davenport is a landscape photographer and photo educator and based in San Diego, California. He leads photo workshops, writes photo books, hosts podcasts, makes tutorial videos, and feels weird referring to himself in the 3rd person.
He also can't help getting his feet wet photographing at the beach.
