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The power of backlighting

Oct 31 2026 | By: Jim Zuckerman Photography

I was happy to get this shot of backlighting in which the bear is essentially surrounded by edge lighting. This was taken about 15 minutes before sunset, and like other images I've posted from this trip, the contrast with the light against a dark background is a strong contributing factor for creating visual impact. If you look closely, some of the edge lit areas are blown out with a complete loss of detail and texture. If you looked at a histogram of this picture, you'd see spiking on the right -- proof that some of the highlights are blown. In virtually all cases, this is not what you want. Here, it's not a problem at all. I took this with 700mm of focal length, and the settings were 1/1000, f/10, and 1600 ISO.

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