I don’t know if you will need these images to fall in love with backlighting or if you are already madly in love with this kind of light ;-). If so, you are not the only one, I will confess that I love it.
Some time ago I passed the phase of fleeing from them as if it were a fatal disease and now the truth is that I am crazy about the possibilities that backlit photography offers me.
The flares, the silhouettes, the light profiles, see how highlights textures, or how the light scatters all over the sensor, sometimes uncontrollably, fascinates me :-). Because when we think of backlighting we usually think of silhouettes, but there are many more possibilities.
By mastering light a little (with this article you will completely master lighting in photography) and the types of measurement (the spot is ideal for this type of photography with such a high dynamic range), you will be able to obtain images like the ones I show you below. continuation.
Open your eyes wide, take a deep breath, and observe. One of these photographs could be yours perfectly. Be clear 🙂 .
As you have seen in the previous images, there are many ways to play with the backlighting and with very different results depending on the area where you decide expose your image and the difference in brightness between the brightest area and the darkest area.
If you decide, for example, to prioritize the brightest area of the scene and expose so that the light source is correctly exposed, everything you place in front of this light source will be dark or completely black (always depending on the difference between lights and shadows). The silhouettes They are, without a doubt, a very interesting formal resource to add to some of your images.
If you decide instead that you prefer to expose so that what is in front of the light source is well exposed, you will probably have an overexposed background. The smaller the difference in light between the lightest and darkest areas, the more room you will have when testing all those backlights that are not silhouettes.
That is why sunrises and sunsets are ideal for you to practice with the backlight. The soft, lateral and warm light that it gives us allows us to play with backlit images with many more possibilities.
If you want to learn the number of possibilities that backlighting has, I recommend that you combine inspiration with some entertaining theory about backlighting by reading this article.
I hope you have liked these images, but above all I hope that they have given you an immense desire to go out and photograph backlights, that you feel how creativity and desire flow through your veins and that, ultimately, you grab your camera and start to practice like crazy. Oh, and if you have time, before you go, give him a like, share it on your favorite social network, or explain it to a friend so that it reaches as many photographers as possible. Thank you and see you next time.