May 06 2010
Senior Portrait
This evening I had the opportunity for a senior portrait shoot. The weather was great with a perfect temperature. The sun was shining brightly through about as clear a sky as you could imagine. I really prefer to have a slightly hazy sky as it turns the sky into a giant “softbox” wrapping the subject in soft sunlight. That wasn’t to be today, as the sun was quite harsh, making it difficult to capture a perfect shot.
In many of my shots I used a flash to fill in the shadows. In others, I had an assistant hold a large white reflector to fill in the shadows. The shot pictured here was straight on sunlight with no added light, but I think it turned out quite nicely. It took a little bit of tweaking in the Adobe Lightroom software to get the exposure just right and to add a bit of darkening to the edges to bring your attention to the subject.
