From the course: Exploring Photography: Backlighting
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Backlighting and foliage - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Exploring Photography: Backlighting
Backlighting and foliage
- Back-lighting opens up another subject matter possibility, and that is translucent objects. Things like foliage, hair, clothing, anything that lets light transmit through it from behind opens up a whole new world of compositional, color, and tonal possibilities. When the light is shining through something, you get these beautiful, bright, illuminated, manuscript-like colors, or really great textures that can look great in black and white. Foliage is the time where you might see it the most, just because we're out in the world, particularly late in the day, and very often we see the sun shining through plants. It's really nice to build compositions up around this. You can do a lot of the techniques that we've seen already, of either just letting the sun shine through the material, or actually using a tree or a plant or something to block out the sun to create a halo of light around the object. There's nothing particularly tricky about this kind of shooting, no special metering or…
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