Studio Lighting
Rim Lighting Done Right: How to Separate Your Subject From Any Background Without Blowing the Edge
I had a subject disappear on me once. Not literally, but close enough. Dark jacket, dark hair, dark seamless background, and I’d placed my key light slightly too far around to the side thinking I was being dramatic. What I got instead was a silhouette with a face. The client sat quietly while I scrambled to fix it, and I’ve never forgotten the specific embarrassment of that silence. That shoot is why I became obsessive about rim lighting as a separate, controlled element in my setups, not a happy accident from a side light that crept around.