How to create an effect?

[shaojing]

Sorry Newbie here,
How do you guys create the effect of the subject being brightly lit while the back ground being a darker tone?

i.e http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6076320

Thanks in advance.

 

[cthep2]

Sorry Newbie here,
How do you guys create the effect of the subject being brightly lit while the back ground being a darker tone?

i.e http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6076320

Thanks in advance.

For my Photoshop Elements, it is under Filter-Render-Lighting Effects.

Cheers!

 

[ahbian]

Fill flash?

 

[ortega]

the example in your link is done by software

kinda like a vignette

other ways is to under expose the bg while you correctly expose the subject
this can be done via lighting or flash

or make a huge gobo and put the bg in shade while exposing for the subject