Understanding Digital Photography by Bryan Peterson

Author:Bryan Peterson [Peterson, Bryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8174-0028-6
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 2011-02-08T16:00:00+00:00

BACKLIT NATURE SUBJECTS

For backlit flowers, I’ll sometimes use a reflector. Without it, it’s a challenge to get both the petals and the center of a backlit flower acceptably exposed. For backlit landscapes, I’ll often rely on my graduated neutral-density filter. No camera on the market today can record, within a single exposure, the vast range of light and dark that exists within a backlit scene. In the “old days,” photographers just had to grin and bear it, knowing full well that the happy medium of overexposing the backlight in order to bring up the foreground darkness was the best they could do.

Then someone had the brilliant idea to make a filter that, when placed over the front of the lens, would reduce the exposure of just the backlit sky by several stops, making the exposure for the backlit area much closer to that of the foreground area. The rest is history and graduated neutral-density filters have been around for at least ten years now. Despite Photoshop’s promise of being able to correct the backlit exposure situation I’ve just described, I still subscribe to the belief that if I can correct something in camera, I will—since it will save me time!

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