Digital Camera World

Try to capture an eyecatching vintage backlit portrait

Camera Fujifilm X-T3

Lens Fujinon XF 35mm F2 R WR

Exposure 1/125 sec at f/2, ISO 400

Challenge 4

Alistair Campbell

We rounded off the day in The Morning Room, joined by model Pippa. With fewer props, this was a bigger challenge for our technique editors and forced them to go back to basics to capture a backlit portrait using one Rotolight Aeos 2 as a fill light facing the model as she posed

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