What are the skills of outdoor backlight portrait photography?

Backlight shooting can also get beautiful results. When shooting wide-angle scenery, macro and even portraits, you can use the backlight level to obtain different effects. Below I carefully collected outdoor backlight portrait photography skills for everyone, hoping to help everyone!

1, under the condition that the foreground is not filled at all, a strong silhouette effect and a good rendering atmosphere can be obtained by metering the bright background.

2. More details can be obtained by properly filling the foreground with reflector or flash.

3. Backlight shooting can produce dazzling contour light around the object, which strongly outlines the appearance of the object.

Try to avoid direct sunlight at noon when taking portraits. However, nothing is absolute. Sometimes, just when you think the sun is quite unsuitable for shooting and are ready to put away your camera, you can get some unexpected results.

4. When shooting subjects that are easy to transmit light, such as forest plants, you can take the backlight level, and the photographed subjects will show stronger texture, and the feeling of light beam will make the picture full of mystery.

5. Pay attention to the composition when the lens has severe halo, and adjust the lens position slightly to avoid the halo covering the subject.

6. Backlight shooting will affect the accuracy of autofocus, and you can focus accurately by manual method.

In terms of photometry, it is recommended to use spot photometry on the face and increase exposure at least once, because face photometry will not be very accurate when backlighting, especially when shooting portraits with strong backlighting! If you want a photo to have a light spot, the lens must include the sun when you take a view. It will be difficult to concentrate at this time. Manual operation is a good choice at this time. We suggest that the aperture value should not be too large, so as not to burn the sensor when too much sunlight enters, which is not worth the candle! If you use a reflector to fill the light, don't let the light reflect from the bottom to your face, because the shadow formed by strong sunlight on your face will be ugly. The correct way is to lift the reflector and let the sun shine obliquely on your face. Don't doubt its feasibility, just try it!

7, side backlight-looking for the beauty of light contrast

The light and shadow in this photo are in sharp contrast. This is a good example. A model without a shadow on her face is not necessarily a good portrait. Controlling the angle and range of shadows is also a good portrait. This feeling will also set off the environmental atmosphere at that time!

Main points of side backlight shooting:

Use the warm sunshine in the afternoon to find the existence of light and shadow, and use "spot metering" (strong light ratio) to focus metering, so as to truly grasp the correct exposure value when shooting, shoot in aperture priority mode (AV mode), measure the exposure value, and adjust the white balance (high color temperature) on cloudy days to make the picture appear warmer. Try bold composition and backlight shooting, control the exposure compensation (+/-EV) of the camera in time, and shoot outdoor portraits under natural light and shadow. Try it when shooting outside!

8. Clever use of flash in backlight.

In the case of strong backlight, skillfully using forced flash to fill the subject can make the subject of the photo look clear, well-defined and more fashionable. If the weather is fine, the reflected blue sky effect will be bluer, such as filling the light with a flash during the day and enlarging the aperture to blur the background. If the flash synchronization speed is low, you need to use a medium gray (ND) filter to dim the lens.

Backlight photos, using flashing lights at night, cleverly make the sunset just on the edge of the picture, and form a strong cold and warm effect with the blue background of the sky, making the theme prominent and the hard light dazzling. After turning on the flash, pay attention to the unity of artificial light and natural light. Often the sunlight in the background will be warmer, and the light output by the flash will be colder, so try to reduce the flash value, or use auxiliary equipment such as soft mask and reflector.

9. Hair glow effect-When shooting the light behind the object, the best thing is that the object will be surrounded by a halo. When light penetrates any translucent object, it will illuminate this person or thing.

In this photo, the sun is behind the subject, and the model's hair is bathed by the sun. Using high-speed TTL flash to fill the shadow of the model's head, face and hair is mainly to expose the model's face normally, and the soft sunset light creates a golden atmosphere for the whole picture, which is an excellent portrait in sugar water!

Although photography is an art that runs out of light, people's thoughts are more important, just like writing when they are young. What's the use of flowery words if you don't know the central idea of your article? And for photography, "feeling" is also very important, especially the moment of moving. ...