What does backlighting mean?

Simply put, the camera lens is facing the light source. In this way, there will generally be overexposed areas, and there may be light stripes, black faces and other situations that you don't want to appear.

Backlight is a kind of lighting with artistic charm and strong expressive force, which can make the picture produce an artistic effect completely different from the actual light we see with the naked eye at the scene.

Backlight photography is a means of taking pictures by using light. Broad backlight should include full backlight and side backlight. Its basic characteristics are: from the light level, total backlight is the light emitted from the subject with his back to the camera, also called "backlight"; The side backlight is the light from the camera's left and right 135 back to the subject. The light receiving surface of the subject accounts for 1/3, and the backlight surface accounts for 2/3.

Especially when shooting in the morning or evening with backlight, the color composition has changed from far to near due to the different media conditions in the air: the foreground is dark and the background is bright; The foreground color saturation is high and the background color saturation is low. In this way, the whole picture from far to near, color from shallow to deep, from shallow to deep, forming a subtle sense of space depth.