Shooting into Sunlight
May 7, 2010
This wonderful tid-bit of advice comes from Danielle Avery on I Heart Faces Constructive Criticism Forum. Thanks Danielle for sharing your insight!
I have seen so many gorgeous pictures where the photographer had taken a picture towards the sun and the person in the picture is lit up perfectly. And these photographers are “natural light” photographers, so I would imagine that they didn’t use a fill light. Well, I finally did a little Googling, and found out the secret! lol. And its really easy! When shooting into the sun, position your subject and put your camera in P Mode. Fill the frame with only your subject’s face. Push the shutter down half way and read what Shutter speed and Aperture the camera is using (just on the face). Then, Put your camera in Manual Mode and use those Shutter speed and Aperture settings. And back up and compose your shot with the sun in the back ground and take your pictures! I hope all of that makes since! lol. And you can play around with the settings to get more flare. I read somewhere that around F11, you get more of a pretty, round flare. 🙂
Here’s Danielle’s first test images:
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