Backlight shooting skill portrait

Backlight shooting skills are as follows (portrait):

1, let a person's face cover the light source: it's not good to take portrait photos with backlight, so choose the shooting angle and try to avoid the direct lens of the light source. For example, adjust the shooting angle to make the light source not appear in the photo, and then fill the face with light in other ways to avoid the embarrassment of taking a big black face.

2. Face spot metering: If you want to solve the problem of face exposure and don't want to fill the light with various devices, you can choose the most direct way, that is, face spot metering, so as to ensure the accurate exposure of the face. But this will make the high area outside the face very bright, and the bright area is likely to become "dead white".

3. Use a reflector to fill your face: If you take a portrait photo with backlight during the day, you can choose a very practical reflector. It is a very economical and practical method to fill the face with reflector. After all, the biggest problem in taking portrait photos with backlight is face exposure. The reflector can simply and rudely fill the face and solve the exposure problem of the face.

4, with the help of flash fill light: you can choose to use LED fill light at night, which is convenient to carry and the fill light effect is not bad. Just adjust the illumination angle of the LED fill light according to the shooting needs. Most mobile phones are also equipped with the function of flashlight, which can also be used as fill light to some extent.

To sum up:

Backlight shooting can produce dazzling silhouette light around the characters, strongly outline the appearance of the characters, the hair of the characters will be highlighted one by one, and the edge line of the body will be presented, so that the whole characters can be displayed more stereoscopically in the picture, forming a dreamy and charming atmosphere. This is an important reason why many photographers like to shoot against the light in portrait photography.