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Also known as backlighting

Contre-jour (; ) is a photographic technique in which the camera is pointing directly toward a source of light, as well as an equivalent technique of painting.

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It is catalogued under the topic Photographic techniques.

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photograph
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Contre-jour photography
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ContreJour

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Contre-jour (; ) is a photographic technique in which the camera is pointing directly toward a source of light, as well as an equivalent technique of painting.

==Description==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “contre-jour” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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