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Watch: The sun is hidden right behind the person: the hair and shoulders get a bright rim and a few flares drift across the lens. Backlight makes an image airy and luminous.A line-art demo that only illustrates the technique, not finished footage.

Image · Lighting

Backlight逆光

The light source is behind the subject, the edges glow, and the subject is close to a silhouette.

Category: Lighting
Group: Basics
Medium: Image
Library: 109 / 166

Want to merge it with other techniques (shot size, lighting, style…) into one full prompt? Click “Add to combo”, then pick one from each of the other terms.

Prompt templates are written from how generation models usually behave and have not yet been verified one by one with real generations. “Common pitfalls” are judgment from experience, not official limits.

When to use it

Atmospheric portraits, light through hair and fuzz, plants and smoke.

Prompt template

backlit, light source directly behind the subject, hair or fuzz glowing at the edges, subject nearly silhouetted while retaining detail.

Sample prompt · generate an image directly

The technique comes first, followed by the subject, scene, details and aspect ratio. Paste it straight into an image model and swap in your own subject.

Backlit shot, the light source directly behind the subject, hair and fine fuzz glowing with a halo, the front of the subject close to silhouette but keeping detail. In a reed marsh at dusk, a girl turns back with a smile, the setting sun hidden right behind her head, her hair ringed in gold. 3:2, slight lens flare, the face not dead black.

Common pitfalls

The front is completely black and the face can't be recognized.
The sun straight in the lens with nothing blocking it, a big glare washing out the image.

Parameter tips

Write “detail kept on the front of the subject” to avoid dead black; write lens flare if you want flares and no flare if you don't.