© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Backlighting Portraiture | My Family When I start as a PRESS Photographers, among few things that bother photographers is “Backlighting”, whether it came from artificial light source or from natural light, sometimes PRESS photographers will shout or ask politely to their subject to move here and there to block the “backlighting”. Backlighting can cause “flare” that make our subject unclear especially on their face. Sometimes photographers will use flash and most of the times they do use flash to bring back light onto their subject face so it does not appear to be dark and it is true that metering is tricky for backlighting. To…