Backlight shooting skills and effects

Backlight shooting skills and effects, let me show you.

Techniques and effects of backlight shooting 1. Backlight point

The light spots under the backlight are round, diamond-shaped, dotted and atomized, which is very beautiful!

Shooting opportunity

To produce the effect of light spot, you need to have a strong? Point light source? . At this time, it will be beneficial to have a light source with hard light quality and strong light quantity. For example, the sun is in a relatively high position, or the light emitted by the light is directed at the lens, which is the case. Sometimes the low-angle sun also has the opportunity to form a light spot, but the amount of sunlight near sunset will be weak, which will easily weaken the light spot into white fog.

Shooting method

In fact, the shape of the light spot has little to do with photography skills, but it definitely has something to do with equipment. For example, the fixed-focus lens has a strong ability to suppress the facula effect and can't shoot the facula; Zoom lenses are relatively easy to produce and will vary according to the coating and material of each lens.

The spot shape is formed by a mechanical blade that controls the aperture of the lens. What will happen if we turn on the big aperture? Bubble type? Spot, will narrowing the aperture appear? Diamond lattice? Spot, but not just full aperture, right? Bubble type? It depends on whether the aperture of your lens is large enough and whether the mechanical blade can be opened to a circle, so that you have a chance to form bubbles, otherwise it will be. Diamond lattice? Or see the bubbles in the corner, and? Diamond lattice? There are also so-called octagons and hexagons, depending on the number of mechanical blades in your lens.

Tips: but it doesn't mean that you can't shoot as long as it is a fixed-focus lens. Like Canon 50 mm F 1.2 L, you can also shoot the facula effect, depending on the characteristics of each lens.

Techniques and effects of backlighting II. Ordinary backlight

When the sun is placed directly behind the model, I classify it as ordinary backlight. Generally speaking, backlight can be divided into two types:? Positive backlight? And then what? Side backlight? If you shoot the sun directly into the picture, what is it called? Positive backlight? If you don't take the sun into the picture, what is it called? Side backlight? .

Shooting method

Just shoot in reverse light, at best? Shading? Photometry, and this type of backlight effect, can easily produce side light and head light. What is more difficult is that the position of the sun in a day is high or low, which will affect the shooting effect, and how to judge and choose the picture we want is the main point of general backlight consideration.

Shooting opportunity

When the sun is still high, you have to kneel down a little if you want to go against the light, but sometimes the low-angle picture is not so ideal and the atmosphere is not easy to control. It would be much easier if the oblique light appeared.

? Side backlight? You don't have to put the sun on the side, but you can call it no matter where the light is, as long as you don't take the sun into the photo.

? Positive backlight? With what? Side backlight? The application is that if the contrast between positive and negative light is too large, the subject will be too dark. If the subject is photographed very bright, the background will be completely overexposed and turn white. Can it be used at this time? Side backlight? To control contrast and avoid overexposure. In addition, the side backlight does not need to be obsessed with avoiding light, but simply wants to reduce the excessive contrast between light and shade caused by direct sunlight.

Techniques and effects of backlight shooting. White atomized backlight

The phenomenon of white fog under backlight is also divided into two different situations, one is under strong light and the other is under weak light, and the effect of fog spots is slightly different.

Shooting method

The intensity of white fog is also related to the equipment, but it is not the lens itself, but the difference in focal length. Because this kind of backlight is the result of diffraction in the lens when the light source enters the camera, the longer your focal length, the more opportunities and times the light diffracts in the lens, the easier it will be. At this time, the greater the opening of the aperture blade, the best effect is to let the light source directly enter the lens.

When the light source is too weak, or the indoor window light is used to create a big contrast, the result will also be atomized, but the atomization in weak light is produced when the light penetrates into a black object with a big contrast, so there is only a faint white fog, which is different from the situation where the screen is completely atomized by strong light. White fog under strong light actually needs a black object as the base, which is obvious, so you can choose a background with high contrast or use the model's body as the base. These are the techniques of using white fog to backlight.

Shooting opportunity

This kind of backlight has nothing to do with shooting time and light quality, but the color of light will have different atomization effects, such as white light will produce white fog and yellow light will produce yellow fog.

Techniques and effects of backlight shooting. Sunset backlight

Shooting opportunity

Since they said it was a sunset, it must have been taken at sunset. When the sun is completely before sunset, there will be a period of soft light quality and slightly golden yellow temperature. At this time, the contrast will be smaller, so the shooting process is easier to control.

This prime time will last about 1 hour, and the time point and duration will vary from season to season.

Shooting method

Sunset backlighting, like general backlighting, is not too difficult, but it is very important to choose scenery and survey if you want to shoot beautiful sunset backlighting. On the day of shooting, wait at the shooting location before prime time, so that we can do enough preparation and homework, and the result will truly present the picture we imagined.

As the sun gets closer to the horizon, the color temperature will turn yellow and the skin color will gradually darken, which is difficult for any powerful software to handle. At this time, if you don't want to call it a day, and don't want to shoot any more, you don't have to shine at the moment, so it's great to shoot a beautiful silhouette instead.