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​Chapter 1
Setting up your picture

ph1-1. Select your background 
ph1-2. Frame your shot
ph1-3. Check your background
ph1-4. Check your foreground
ph1-5. Place your subject

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Chapter 2
Note your surrounding

ph2-1. Note the horizon
ph2-2. Tilt the horizon
ph2-3. Morning haze
ph2-4. Shooting in shade
ph2-5. Morning full sun


Chapter 3
Natural light

ph3-1. Backlit subjects
ph3-2. Portraits in the sun
ph3-3. Flair
ph3-4. Flair sunlight
ph3-5. Horizontal or vertical


Chapter 4
Contrast and closeness

ph4-1. Dark skin portraits
ph4-2. Light skin portraits
ph4-3. Shoot close
ph4-4, Still life
ph4-5. Micro lenses

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Lesson

ph3-1. Backlit subjects
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This backlit shot has extreme contrast. 

But we got beautiful light coming through the fig tree, and that’s the priority. 

So it’s OK if details are underexposed. 
The important thing is we get the correct exposure for the key part of the image.

(camera shutter)
Note the rich color saturation and the backlit solid outline.


Practice

ph3-1p. Backlit Subjects

Working with a person or an object, take a picture of the subject using one leading light on the back of your head or the subject.

If you don't have bright sun, you can use a street light in the evening or use a harsh reading light indoors.

​Make sure the light is intense, so the shadows are dark.
  1. Take a picture with the camera facing the light. The subject should be in shadow, but there should be a bright halo around the subject.
Study your results, send it in with 25-75 words about your observations.


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