How to take good portrait photography with backlit exterior?

Lead: If you want to shoot a good outdoor backlit portrait, you need to pay attention to some details and skills besides technical proficiency. Let's follow me to discuss the topic of outdoor backlight portrait shooting skills, so that your backlight portrait works can be shot better.

Backlight shooting includes oblique backlight, flat backlight and side backlight. In the morning and at night, because the angle of sunlight is low, the light source is flat, that is, the person being photographed faces the camera lens, and the sun illuminates the subject from the back of the subject at a very low angle. This kind of backlight is called flat backlight. This season (autumn and winter), the sun rises after 8 o'clock in the morning. This kind of backlight is called oblique backlight.

These backlights, whether front backlight or side backlight, are helpful to highlight the main body of the subject, and are ideal lights to outline the figure, reflect its beautiful figure and create a rich sense of depth. Sunlight varies in different time periods, and the position of light source is constantly changing, so it is necessary to master the skills and details of shooting backlight. The specific shooting techniques are as follows:

First, we should pay attention to the correct exposure, because exposure compensation must be increased when shooting backlit portraits, and the amount of exposure compensation varies with the background environment of the subject.

Second, pay attention to the clothing color of the subject, because the clothing color also has a great relationship with the amount of exposure compensation. The exposure compensation of white clothes will increase, and the exposure of black clothes will decrease a little.

Third, you should pay attention to avoid shooting backlit portraits in the background of big white light, such as too bright sky and white walls, which of course depends on what exposure mode you use.

Fourth, attention should be paid to sunlight entering the lens, that is, glare entering the lens will blur the photos taken and change the color of the photos. However, if handled properly, the glare entering the lens can add artistic conception and aesthetic feeling to the subject. Avoiding glare is also very simple, that is, covering the front and top of the lens. The glare of SLR cameras with flat backlight and hood will also enter the lens, which also needs to be blocked by something in front of the lens.

The most important thing to take photos of backlit people is to practice more. If you shoot more and practice more, you will naturally master the shooting skills.