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Dreamy backlit portrait of a female model posing against a black background

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// David Bellemere for Marie Claire Italia February 2010 / scan by diciassette

Posts about backlit portraits written by matt

Profoto on Instagram: "Beauty, fashion and portrait photographer @katewhytephoto created a cool little animation of how she lit this image. "When you are lighting with multiple sources, I often find it helpful to build them up one at a time. In this case, I backlit the model with an octabox that created a beautiful glow effect and then I layered in a Softlight in front of her to bring out the detail in her face and hair. I used two D2 1000s and a Canon R5" Model: @ryserjannaya…

Model Santiago Ferrari at Premier Model Management in London posing for a shoot by photographer Michael Silver. Santiago's mother agency is Montevideo Model Management while he's also with 2Morrow Men in Milan.