In photography lighting, backlighting is a kind of lighting with artistic charm and strong expressiveness, and many photographers like to create under backlighting. The artistic expression of backlighting mainly has the following seven aspects.
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1. Backlight Can Enhance the Texture of the Subject
Especially transparent or translucent objects, such as flowers, plant branches and leaves, etc., the backlight effect is very beautiful. Because backlight illumination can improve the brightness and saturation of light-transmitting objects, so that plain and tasteless transparent or translucent objects under forward light illumination present a beautiful luster and a better sense of transparency.
2. Backlight can enhance the rendering of the atmosphere
Especially in the morning and evening in landscape photography, low-angle, large backlighting means of light and shadow modeling are used, and the retroreflected light will outline the red clouds like dyeing, the sea of clouds transpiring, mountains, villages, and forests like ink. If mist, light boat, and flying birds are added to set off each other, it will cause a deep resonance in vision and soul, making the work deeper in connotation, higher in artistic conception, and full of charm.
3. Can Enhance the Modeling Effect
In backlight shooting, due to the increased proportion of dark parts, a considerable part of the details are covered by shadows, and the subject stands out in the picture with simple lines or a small light-receiving area. This large light ratio and high contrast give people a strong visual impact, resulting in a strong artistic modeling effect.
4. Backlight Can Highlight the Subject
First, it makes the background under-exposed and cleansed up by putting it in backlight. Secondly, it can vividly outline the clear outline of the subject, separate the subject from the background, highlight the undulations and lines of the subject, and enhance the subject’s sense of subjectivity.
5. Backlighting Can Deeply Portray Characters
Due to the small light-receiving area of the entire picture, most of the face and body are in shadow, forming a heavy and low-key picture dominated by dark colors. This helps to express the character’s deep, reserved, solemn or melancholy character.
6. Hide Details
At the same time, due to the large contrast and contrast of shades and the strong layout of light and dark light, some deficiencies on the faces of the characters can be diluted by strong light, and the shadows of the backlight can be used to hide them, so as to achieve the effect of promoting strengths and avoiding weaknesses.
7. Backlight Can Enhance the Sense of Space of the Picture
Especially in the morning or evening shooting under the backlight, due to the different conditions of the medium in the air, the color composition has undergone different changes in the distance. The foreground is dark and the background is bright. The foreground color saturation is high, and the background color saturation is low. As a result, the whole picture moves from far to near, and the colors change from light to dark, from light to dark, forming a subtle sense of spatial depth.
Several Artistic Effects of Backlight Photography
1. Backlight can enhance visual impact
Specifically, first of all, it can make the background under backlight and underexposure. So that the background is purified, so as to obtain the effect of highlighting the subject.
Secondly, it can vividly outline the clear outline of the subject, separate the subject from the background. It can highlight the undulations and lines of the subject. And it can enhance the subject’s sense of subjectivity.
Third, it can deeply portray the character of the character. Due to the small light-receiving area of the entire picture, most of the face and body are in shadow, forming a heavy and low-key picture dominated by dark colors. This helps to express the character’s deep, reserved, solemn or melancholy character.
At the same time, due to the large contrast and contrast of shades and the strong layout of light and dark light, some deficiencies on the faces of the characters can be diluted by strong light. And we can use the shadows of the backlight to hide them, so as to achieve the effect of promoting strengths and avoiding weaknesses.
