Backlighting for the Bold

Oooh. For Monochrome Madness this week, Brian Bushboy has set a challenge and a half. Backlighting. What? I hear non-photographers ask. Here’s what Brian says: ‘Backlighting in photography is a way for photographers to create dramatic lighting. This involves positioning the main light source for a photograph behind the primary subject’. In other words, do what you spend your photographic life trying NOT to do. Take shots direct into the sun, or the light source, anyway. It’s easier in a sunny country, so let’s take the ferry to Spain.

I have no idea who this couple are. But they were enjoying a meal, a glass of wine, with the sun shining over the coast we were heading for.

And here we are in Premià, staying with daughter and family.

We won’t outstay our welcome, but nip down to Valencia. To l’Albufera.

After, we’ll come back to the UK. To Pembrokeshire:

The featured photo is from the UK too. No idea where.

And that is all I have to say on the subject.

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

53 thoughts on “Backlighting for the Bold”

  7. Well, that might be all you have to say on the subject, but you’ve done very nicely! I know this would’ve been outside your comfort zone, and you didn’t think you could deliver the goods but you did…..well done. The couple eating is my favourite example

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  8. well, I feel you said a great many things about this subject. Fantastic collection of great shots – I do a lot of those, simply because my inner eye sees something I can’t name yet, but which already has a title in my mind, and then at home looking at it on a large screen, it all falls beautifully into place. Your work here is ART.

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  17. Backlighting or silhouettes? I would say these are the latter, but none the worse for that. Essentially, silhouettes are a specific result of backlighting where the subject matter appears as a dark shape. I love the teasels and the fisherman.

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