Here are two edits of a natural light image I took of my daughter in France. I positioned my daughter with the sun behind her (so I was shooting into the sun) and I had a large white wall behind me. This large wall acted as a large fill reflector filling the shadows and taking down the contrast.
I set my camera to manual exposure, set the aperture I wanted (personally I like F4 to F5.6 for portraits like this, this was shot at F4), zoomed in my camera so I was only metering for the skin on the face and changed my shutter speed until the camera meter told me the exposure was correct.
With my exposure set I was free to concentrate on composition and interaction with my daughter. The result...a very pleasing portrait from my holidays in France.
I set my camera to manual exposure, set the aperture I wanted (personally I like F4 to F5.6 for portraits like this, this was shot at F4), zoomed in my camera so I was only metering for the skin on the face and changed my shutter speed until the camera meter told me the exposure was correct.
With my exposure set I was free to concentrate on composition and interaction with my daughter. The result...a very pleasing portrait from my holidays in France.
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