Why does the scenery darken when shooting the sun?

Landlord, this is a common backlight phenomenon in photography.

Take shooting architecture as an example. The sun (or light) is behind the building, and the light distribution of the whole scene and the front of the building will appear darker. This is the so-called "backlight shooting".

Most cameras will preset all the framing pictures as the basis for metering. Due to the backlight environment, the light on the back of the building is relatively strong. After average calculation, the camera will think that the darkness in the front of the building is normal, which is why the backlight environment will shoot a "dark building".

solution

1. We can use the concept of "exposure compensation" to deal with "backlight photography", that is, increasing exposure will make the scene brighter, but this method will enhance the brightness of the whole photo, which will not only brighten the object, but also brighten the background, resulting in the loss of background details.

A better way is to use a reflector to reflect the light from the front of the building.

Selection of reflector

You can use a white reflector to soften the light on sunny days, and a silver or gold reflector can reflect more light on cloudy days.

In fact, you can also make your own reflector and cut and paste it into your own reflector with styrofoam board and silver paper.

Backlight photography is a common technique. Proper application of reflector or other light compensation equipment will make the shooting effect have unexpected effects!