
MAKING PORTRAITS 191
Background Lights
So far we have talked about lighting the subject. Background lights illumi-
nate, as the name implies, the background rather than the person being
photographed. Figure 8.20 shows the eect of the background light by itself.
We made Figure 8.21 using a three-light set-up. Besides the main and ll
lights we used before, we added a background light. Compare it with Figure
8.17, which we made with just a main light and a ll.
As you can readily see, the two pictures are similar, but look at how
nicely the back of our model’s head and his shoulders are separated from
the background in Figure 8.21. at is exactly ...