Portraits are one of photography’s biggest challenges, because they involve so many different considerations. Of course, one of these is the lighting you’re working with: we all know that a stunning image has so much to do with the lighting used, but it’s important to get to grips with working consciously and deliberately with specific types of light. This is perhaps particularly true when it comes to portraits, precisely because you need to be able to free yourself up to interact successfully with the subject, helping to guide them in terms of posing and expression.
Backlighting is one of the most beautiful and striking manifestations of light, providing you as the photographer with many different opportunities to create artistic and creative images. It’s not without its challenges, of course, and…
