UP Nature Notes (Blog)
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Nature Photography Techniques: Rim Lighting - UP Nature Notes, No. 28
May 10, 2025
In the previous two Notes, I demonstrated how backlighting can be used creatively to make photographs with sunbursts and silhouettes. Here I show examples of yet another backlighting technique called rim lighting. In this case, light coming from behind the subject creates a bright outline around the subject, especially if…
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More Fun with Backlighting: Silhouettes - UP Nature Notes , No. 27
February 22, 2025
In the previous Note, I showed how to use backlighting to create sun bursts. Shooting toward the sun can also be used creatively in other way, but it’s tricky due to the extremes of brightness involved. The shadowed subject is often underexposed at the same time the sunny background is…
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Sunbursts to Celebrate the Sun’s Return - UP Nature Notes, No. 26
January 31, 2025
In the northern hemisphere, we are now (early February) half way from the Winter Solstice to the Vernal Equinox, and the daylight hours are noticeably longer. Many cultural traditions celebrated this time of hope and expectation with feasts and ceremonies. To the ancient Celts it was Imbolc (‘in the belly’…