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Why back light is great for portraits

Why back light is great for portraits

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Why back light is great for portraits

- [Narrator] In this movie, I want to begin to take a look at how we can work with back light. Now as we talked about previously, back light is where we have a subject and we have a light source behind the subject. Now the trick with any type of light source is this, we tend to think of it as one thing, but in reality it's many different things. So here I'm going to go ahead and clip through a slideshow of images and what we'll see in these images is that we can capture back light out in the ocean of a good friend, on the edge of a beach, we can have back light that has a little bit more of a mild color temperature or one which is really deep, rich, and warm or even a cooler color temperature as well. We can use back light more of silhouette scenario like this or perhaps more of a direct portrait. Like in this portrait here on the left, this is Douglas Kirkland an amazing photographer, you can see that the color temperature is much more white. That's because he's in a white room but…

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