backlight
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbæk.laɪt/
Noun
backlight (plural backlights)
- (countable) A spotlight that illuminates a photographic subject from behind.
- (uncountable) Light that is behind a photographic subject.
- 2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, →ISBN, page 73:
- If I do use backlight, it's not to separate the subject from the background; I use it to set a psychological mood, or to create a look.
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- (countable) A light attached to an LCD display.
- (countable) The rear window of a motor car.
Translations
spotlight that illuminates a photographic subject from behind
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light attached to an LCD display
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rear window of a motor car
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Verb
backlight (third-person singular simple present backlights, present participle backlighting, simple past and past participle backlighted or backlit)
- (transitive) To illuminate something from behind.
Translations
illuminate something from behind
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