{"id":4036,"date":"2011-05-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/backlighting\/"},"modified":"2011-05-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:00:00","slug":"backlighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/backlighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Backlighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a rule made to be broken, you don\u2019t put your subject between you and the light source. I don\u2019t think I was ever successful with a backlit subject using film. Digital automatic settings make it easy. Here are two of my most dramatic photos:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/DSC09410.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"into the light (Kathleen in a Mayan entranceway and arch in Tikal, Guatemala)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"into the light (Kathleen in a Mayan entranceway and arch in Tikal, Guatemala)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/DSC09410_thumb.jpg\" width=\"364\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a>&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/bosque-214.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"bosque 214\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bosque 214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/bosque-214_thumb.jpg\" width=\"364\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the one below didn\u2019t work, even though the conditions are nearly identical with the first one above:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/DSC09415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"DSC09415\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC09415\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/DSC09415_thumb.jpg\" width=\"364\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One reason to avoid backlighting is to avoid flares and other artifacts, but even those can be artistic in limited amounts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/DSC04781.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"DSC04781\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC04781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/DSC04781_thumb.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a>&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/DSC06134.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Ruslyn&#39;s visit\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ruslyn&#39;s visit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/DSC06134_thumb.jpg\" width=\"364\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a rule made to be broken, you don\u2019t put your subject between you and the light source. I don\u2019t think I was ever successful with a backlit subject using film. Digital automatic settings make it easy. Here are two of my most dramatic photos: &#160; But the one below didn\u2019t work, even though the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/backlighting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Backlighting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}