Photography question of the day...
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- vaxorcist0
backlight like that with some front fill indicates either a big reflector, sliver which may make your model squint as @nthkl says, or white side, but has to be positioned right..... or more likely mixed light, with a strong portable lighting source, as you have to compete with the sun, hence the 1200 watt-second rented Profoto 7B + beauty dish that's so often on fashion shoots like the above, gelled orange-ish to make it look like natural light even if it isn't.... given how soft the arm shadows are, it looks like they may be using a larger diffusion source, like an octobank or a huge scrim a la Annie Liebowitz... they may have 2 or 3 lights without you knowing it...
Without some strong diffused light or reflector, the models would look more like sillouettes with backlight that strong....