The position and the intensity of light can affect the mood of the picture easily. Although having enough amount of light to shine on your subject from the front directly will give you its best detail, but the reverse creates can create interesting result as well.
As you can see above, the spot light was positioned close to the couple in the picture. In fact, the actual light source from the back was so much taller than both of them. I had to squad down and take a low angle shot to bring the light closer to them. Since it's a spot light and there isn't much light shining on their face, I had to use another artificial light, which is the flash to properly light up their faces. Right now I'm still figuring out how to make the light to be "star-shaped". I was unable to do it because smaller aperture will lead to longer shutter time that will blur moving subjects easily. Any idea?
Alright, how about bringing the light even closer to the subject? This time I position in such a way that the light was directly behind the subject (the girl's head). You would notice the the strong light from the back creates a high contrast on her hair and separates it nicely from the dark sky. The flash was used again because there isn't much light shining on the subject and it was rather a fast moving subject.
Finally, I've managed to capture this one without using a flash! At this angle, the spot light from the top of the stage was strong enough to separate the two from the background and also to light up their faces partially. A bit of lens flare sets the mood well too.
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