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Good morning! Hope everyone is well. I am curious to see what people think about the key to fill ratio in this shot. I'm trying to learn more about back lighting and i really like the mood of this music video. Thanks guys!

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5 hours ago, Giray Izcan said:

I would just leave it like that and let the subject get silhouetted against the bright background.

Figured as much. They probably just used a nice monitor and lit it by eyes. I like the fact that his face still has detail and the shadows are dark but not noisy. Even for youtube it looks nice

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If I were shooting this on film, there are two ways I would have metered this -- one, I would have imagined this as a 360 degree move around the person and metered the backlight as if it were a front light, second, I would have metered the shaft of light with a spot meter (trick there is that the smoke levels keep changing) -- I would have compared the two readings and then taken a guess!

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