how to fake backlight

[nery]

hi Damien and the team,

I was wondering if there is a way to fake a backlight?

Sometimes when I shoot inside client doesn't have a window that I can use, and I don't have a huge softbox, and I love backlit photos especially when I have a newborn or pregnancy shooting.

Here are some photos so you can see what I meant.

Thank you!
Nery

[Damien Symonds]

Please read the section guidelines, especially rule 1.

[nery]

sorry, my bad! I've read it after posting. Since these pics are the some I found on google images, here is the link to my favourite newborn photographer: 

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52ced2f6e4b0ed43a7e532c5/52cefd3ee4b0e0cf48e5d936/53d92f6ce4b0fe1ee45dac83/1406742549168/IMG_0029.JPG?format=1000w.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/2a/0c/a1/2a0ca1752d474c0e4e248142c9d4a3ac.jpg.

Any chance to fake that backlite? My picture is attached.

thx Damien!

 

[Christina Keddie]

But you photographed her against a wall, not a window...  Are you asking Damien to help you remove the shadows entirely to get rid of the wall, and then fake a backlight as though she were against a window instead?

[Damien Symonds]

Sorry, it won't work.  If you take away the wall and the shadow, the hair will just look inexplicably squashed flat on that side.

Anyway, it would be impossible to take away the shadow, I'm afraid.

[nery]

Thank you guys! I was thinking in general, is it possible to fake backlight, maybe with something like high-key? 

I always have a problem when I add to much white on the background, it looks unrealy, no shadows around the body, and the border of the body become hursh, not soft like it would me on normally backlighted photo. Anyhow if you have some tutorial on high-key in postprocessing I would appreciate it.

thank you!

Nery

 

[Damien Symonds]

The short answer is "no".  You can exaggerate backlight, but it's damned hard to created it out of a front- or side-lit photo.