Contre-jour (Against the daylight)
I like the term Contre-jour it sounds more sophisticated than “Back lit” but really it does refer to photographs taken where the primary light source is behind the subject but not necessarily directly behind it as I have done here.
These images have me thinking about how often I use this technique, so I have just gone through some of my images to find other examples. This is by no means all of them but based on the number of images I had to look through to find them I can safely say I’m not being repititious when I do take an image like this.
UPDATE: Ok I found another one that I really like. It’s funny because until I looked at it again I had forgotten how a friend and I had rushed ahead so that I could capture this and we would still be able to make it back before dark. Based on the date this was 19 years ago.
