First basic tip. Avoid photographing in the hours the sun is the brightest. Best time to photograph is before 10am and this time a year I would hold off until after 4pm. Find some shade. Watch out for sun speckles on your subjects face. Make sure you can see your subjects eyes and that they are not hidden in a shadow. Don't make your subject squint. If it's overcast outside then rejoice and go out and take photos...that kind of light is the best! No squinting and no harsh crazy shadows :)
So, today Chelsea and I had a date to do her senior photos.
We were so happy the weather was going to cooperate.
When you do this for a living you can't reschedule because the sun is too bright...that would be crazy right?
I told her to bring a variety of her favorites to wear. We were photographing at her grandparents house. I had been there before and I knew it was a photographers dream...
but...I was breaking so many of my own rules!
We started our session at 9am...but already the sun was so bright. There was not a cloud in the sky, and shade was hard to come by.
We had a blast.
Chelsea, thank you for being such a good sport as I fiddled with my cameras, my flash, and my reflectors all morning long, conquering the sun and searching for the perfect shot. I hope you love them as much as I do!
Beautiful location, beautiful Chelsea, happy happy I could do this all-day-long Joanne :)
