How to Include Backlight in your Photoshoots

by Karl Taylor & Urs Recher

In this professional studio lighting how-to you will learn a method of shooting against backlighting. Urs Recher and Karl Taylor demonstrate a special approach of using backlight.

Their model raises her arms up, so the backlight can bounce of them and iluminate her face. Therefore, her arms become the main and fill light. With careful poses and positioning, the model actually shapes and bounces light into the shot.