In this week's episode, Steve Simon talks about a variety of images united by the theme of backlighting.
- [Steve] I find that backlight situations can be…kind of difficult to shoot in, but can be very successful.…Hi, I'm Steve Simon, the Passionate Photographer,…and welcome to a new edition of Photo Critique of the Week.…I'm going to show you a few photos from Chicago…taken not long ago, in a backlight situation,…and whenever I find myself trying to…photograph something that's backlit, a couple of things.…I want to make sure that my front element is really clean.…
As a matter of fact, as much as I have a very high quality…protective filter, Nikon filter, on my lens,…I might take it off because that one extra…element of glass is not necessarily going to…help the situation, especially when…it's backlit and you've got the light…coming kind of sharply and from different angles.…It could create kind of a flare as you see in this image,…and it reduces the contrast overall.…So you want to sort of maintain and maximize that contrast.…
So when this happens, in this backlight situation,…it usually doesn't last very long.…
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