by Joseph T. Sinclair<\/p>\n
In anoth\u00ader arti\u00adcle, I warned that you should always take pho\u00adtos with the sun com\u00ading over your shoul\u00adder. Tak\u00ading pho\u00adtos into the sun or into a source of light cre\u00adates prob\u00adlems for tak\u00ading a nor\u00admal photo.<\/p>\n
As we all know, how\u00adev\u00ader, there are excep\u00adtions to every rule. In this case, the excep\u00adtions you might want to con\u00adsid\u00ader to this rule are back\u00adlight\u00ading and sil\u00adhou\u00adettes. Back\u00adlight\u00ading can cre\u00adate beau\u00adti\u00adful pho\u00adtographs, and sil\u00adhou\u00adettes (when intend\u00aded to be sil\u00adhou\u00adettes) can be very attrac\u00adtive too.<\/p>\n
Back\u00adlight\u00ading can be beau\u00adti\u00adful in cer\u00adtain sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly when the sun is low in the sky ear\u00adly in the morn\u00ading or late in the after\u00adnoon or ear\u00adly evening. If the sun pass\u00ades through some\u00adthing translu\u00adcent in such sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions, it often makes the translu\u00adcent sub\u00adstance glow, which can cre\u00adate spec\u00adtac\u00adu\u00adlar photos.<\/p>\n
For instance, foliage (leaves) tends to be translu\u00adcent. If you have the sun stream\u00ading at you through trees or oth\u00ader veg\u00ade\u00adta\u00adtion in close prox\u00adim\u00adi\u00adty, you will often see a translu\u00adcent glow. Even if the sun is low in the sky and is reflect\u00ading off foliage instead of pass\u00ading through it, you can some\u00adtimes get an attrac\u00adtive glow too. When the sun is high\u00ader in the sky, you\u2019ll get a nor\u00admal pho\u00adto shoot\u00ading the same foliage.<\/p>\n
The les\u00adson to be learned here is that back\u00adlight\u00ading is nor\u00admal\u00adly unde\u00adsir\u00adable and will not pro\u00advides you with the pho\u00adtos that you seek to take. On the oth\u00ader hand, be aware that back\u00adlight\u00ading can pro\u00advide you with pho\u00adto oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adties in cer\u00adtain sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions if you stay aware that back\u00adlight\u00ading occa\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adly cre\u00adates attrac\u00adtive effects.<\/p>\n
As I men\u00adtioned in the oth\u00ader blog about hav\u00ading the sun at your back, it is very dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to get good pho\u00adtographs of peo\u00adple oth\u00ader\u00adwise. Why? Because every\u00adthing behind the peo\u00adple will be lit up with the back\u00adlight\u00ading (sun), and the faces and bod\u00adies of the peo\u00adple will be very dark. Shoot\u00ading peo\u00adple into the sun is per\u00adhaps the most com\u00admon mis\u00adtake that novice pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adphers make.<\/p>\n
But if you want to get sil\u00adhou\u00adettes, shoot\u00ading into the sun or anoth\u00ader source of light is obvi\u00adous\u00adly the way to do it. The sil\u00adhou\u00adettes might be of peo\u00adple, trees, vehi\u00adcles, build\u00adings, or ani\u00admals. To shoot such sil\u00adhou\u00adettes you need to have your light source (sun) be behind the sub\u00adject you are shoot\u00ading. Gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly speak\u00ading, it\u2019s best to shoot sil\u00adhou\u00adettes when the sun is low in the sky ear\u00adly in the morn\u00ading or late after\u00adnoon or ear\u00adly evening. Espe\u00adcial\u00adly at dawn and sun\u00adset the sun becomes is weak and you get a nice glow in the sky. That glow can be used to cre\u00adate some sil\u00adhou\u00adettes that when appear\u00ading togeth\u00ader with the glow can make very attrac\u00adtive photos.<\/p>\n
Anoth\u00ader sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion where back\u00adlight\u00ading works well is when you use it togeth\u00ader with very strong front light\u00ading. This works well indoors when you take pic\u00adtures of peo\u00adple or objects. Just using lights from the front may not give you the best pho\u00adto\u00adgraph you can get, and adding some back\u00adlight\u00ading or chang\u00ading shoot\u00ading posi\u00adtions to take advan\u00adtage of back\u00adlight\u00ading can often make the pho\u00adto\u00adgraph better.<\/p>\n
Out\u00addoors it\u2019s a lit\u00adtle dif\u00adfer\u00adent. Out\u00addoors when the sun back\u00adlights your sub\u00adject, it is very sel\u00addom that your sub\u00adject will also be light\u00aded from the front. Pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adphers use reflec\u00adtors when they suit shoot sub\u00adjects out\u00addoors, such as mod\u00adels. To shoot just one mod\u00adel, they might use as many as five or six reflec\u00adtors. Thus, the sub\u00adject is back\u00adlit by the nat\u00adur\u00adal sun\u00adlight and lit from the front by a reflec\u00adtion of that sunlight.<\/p>\n
Anoth\u00ader way to get front light in an out\u00addoor sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion where your sub\u00adject is back\u00adlit by the nat\u00adur\u00adal light\u00ading is to use a flash. This is called a fill-in flash<\/em> and works very effec\u00adtive\u00adly for nor\u00admal cam\u00aderas and nor\u00admal flash units. The flash units on phone cam\u00aderas, how\u00adev\u00ader, are extreme\u00adly weak and will not be effec\u00adtive in this situation.<\/p>\n Using back\u00adlight\u00ading and using sil\u00adhou\u00adettes are two tech\u00adniques to avoid in nor\u00admal shoot\u00ading but to take advan\u00adtage of in spe\u00adcial sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions. It\u2019s just a mat\u00adter of stay\u00ading aware.<\/p>\n \n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Joseph T. Sin\u00adclair In anoth\u00ader arti\u00adcle, I warned that you should always take pho\u00adtos with the sun com\u00ading over your shoul\u00adder. Tak\u00ading pho\u00adtos into the sun or into a source of light cre\u00adates prob\u00adlems for tak\u00ading a nor\u00admal pho\u00adto. As we all know, how\u00adev\u00ader, there are excep\u00adtions to every rule. In this case, the exceptions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1002","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonecameraphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonecameraphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonecameraphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonecameraphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonecameraphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/phonecameraphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/phonecameraphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonecameraphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}