{"id":2881,"date":"2014-07-16T05:41:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T09:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2014-07-15T17:57:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T21:57:29","slug":"backlighting-still-life-set-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2014\/07\/16\/backlighting-still-life-set-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"Backlighting a Still Life Set Up with Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, backlighting, easy, right?<\/h3>\n

This week I am helping run the snack station at our parish’s vacation bible school. As usual it is the hot-est, humid-est week of the summer. Coming home Monday with the backlighting assignment still on my mind, I poured myself a big glass of ice water and was struck by how pretty the blue plastic looked. (With 7 kids around we don’t do glass glasses anymore — it took me several years too long to figure that out.) <\/p>\n

I wasn’t happy with the backlit subjects I had shot so far, and I was looking to try again. I thought that the glass might be the basis for a cool shot. With the right colors and materials, the bright light shining through them from behind might just really add some flair. <\/p>\n

I’m happy with this shot — but I don’t think I would use backlighting as the primary light again. I like the way it illuminated the color and separated some items from the darker background, but I don’t care as much for the way it made non-translucent items darker. I think I would have to figure out some ratio of back to front or back to side lighting and I’m still working on mastering one speedlight. Every time I pull out the second flash I end up bawling on the floor in frustration.<\/p>\n

The Behind-the-Scene Shot<\/h3>\n

Here’s the behind the scene for this one. In order to get some light in the front, I pulled the shutter speed waaaaayy down to allow more ambient light in. Unfortunately the weather decided to be naughty and dark rain clouds rolled in right as I was setting up. Thankfully the tripod and reflectors (and let’s be honest, LightRoom and Nik) came to the rescue.<\/p>\n

\"Behind<\/a><\/p>\n

The runner-up<\/h3>\n

\"Backlit<\/a>
\nThis one was very dramatic and I really loved that about it. But the backlighting was more top lighting. <\/p>\n

\"behind<\/a>
\nHere’s the bts on that shot. (That’s not dust you see in the flash light — really, it’s not! Okay, maybe it is.)This time I left off the black backboard and just used the sync shutter speed to squelch the ambient light in the room and create the effect of a black background and the old inverse-square law of light stuff — not that I could have told you that before I started really delving into the flash stuff…physics of light from me! Who would’ve guessed! ; )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, backlighting, easy, right? This week I am helping run the snack station at our parish’s vacation bible school. As usual it is the hot-est, humid-est week of the summer. Coming home Monday with the backlighting assignment still on my mind, I poured myself a big glass of ice water and was struck by how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bts","category-flash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Backlit-Queen-Annes-Lace-with-glass-of-water.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2v9Qt-Kt","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}