How Do You Use Light In Photography?
• Understand that back-lighting is light that comes from behind your subject. Like most things in photography, back-lighting is neither “good” nor “bad” in an absolute way. • Depending upon what affect you want, you can use back-lit situations to your advantage. Or, if left to chance, back-lit situations can create photographic disasters. Here are some examples of back lighting… A backlighted image of a sunset. A backlighted image of cranes. • Focus on the sunset and the trees photo. As you can see, back lighting is what turns the subject into a silhouette against the sunset. In this case, it is a good thing and adds to the artistic nature of the picture. Know that when using a back-lit source, it doesn’t have to technically be light. For example, when taking a picture of a subject in front of a bright sky, this will produce a back-lit situation even if the sun is not visible as a light source. • There are two critical aspects when working with the back-lit situations. The Metering M
