Weekly Photography Challenge – Backlighting

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By Stefan Lins

Weekly Photography Challenge – Backlighting

Good lighting is key to creating successful and powerful images. Backlighting is one such way to use light to your advantage. Certain subjects lend themselves well to having the light come from behind, or even through them. Such as:

• Leaves and flowers
• Steam and smoke
• Anything translucent that the light can come through
• Water
• Glass
• Hair (portraits that use backlight add a glow to the subject’s hair)
• Pets (same with fur!)
• Cut fruit and some foods

What other things can you think of that look great backlit?

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Share your images below:

Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer, upload them to your favorite photo-sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.

Share in the dPS Facebook Group

You can also share your images on the dPS Facebook group as the challenge is posted there each week as well.

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