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Backlit or Backlighting Photography Tips for Portraiture
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Backlighting Photography Tips | Canon 5D Mark II | 50mm | ISO 160 | 1/1000 | f/2 I’ve written a lot of backlighting photography tips, you can check my previous post regarding on camera metering to get the best exposure for your subject. In this blog post I just wanted to share a simple tips that is suitable for portrait photography in backlit situation. As the name suggest, backlit or backlighting refer to the light coming behind your subject, in this case, behind the person you’re photographing. Normally you the photographer are facing the sun and the sun is behind your subject or the person…
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Portrait Photography | Backlighting Photography Tips
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | ISO 200 | 50mm | F2.0 | 1/640 | Spot Metering Talking about Backlighting in photography, some photographers either like it or hate it as simple as that. One of the reason why they hate it maybe because it is so hard to control the exposure especially if we are shooting with a Program Mode, because most of the time our subject will look dark. I like backlighting simply because I like the mood and the flare that it produce, and I want to keep it that way. Most of the times a photograph will look imperfect when we are…