![]() ![]() I have artistic reasons for taking this photo, and many other photographers take these back-lit photos religiously…people just seem to like them. ![]() ![]() Now, we’re staring directly into the sun which doesn’t give my on-camera flash much of a chance, but it did just enough to keep the subjects from being complete black halos. In this engagement portrait, the only direct lighting I had was an on camera flash. One of the types of images that will almost NEVER be acceptable out of camera are harshly back-lit photos. The object of the edits was simply to correct blatant errors and add the weight of the texture and color to the family in the center rather than the background. It is weird, and it wasn’t my idea…but I actually think it’s pretty dang cool. You might be thinking, “That’s a really weird place for family/maternity photos.” You’re not wrong. I love what the sun in the background does to his hair, but obviously we’re going to need to do some tweaking to shine the spotlight on our subject’s face. Right off the bat, you can see we have a back-lit image here with out subject’s face in the shadow. Here we have a very simple individual portrait. Which is where post processing, specifically Lightroom, comes into play. ![]() There are ways to make photos more intriguing out of camera by using strategies like back-lighting, the rule of thirds, leading lines, shallow depth of field, and many others, but most people want their portraits to be better than reality. Many images straight out of camera are plain and quite simply, boring. In this article, you will see how I use Adobe Lightroom to get my images to (hopefully) pop off the screen. The answer is, most professional-looking photos these days are put through some sort of image processor…it’s just the cold hard truth. What makes professional photos pop? Could it be the camera, studio lighting, the lens, or maybe they hired a really expensive model? In some cases, yes to all or some of the above. ![]()
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