Portrait photography tip: Shooting into the sun

Thursday 9 January 2020, 15:51 by Elja Trum | 5,084 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

By photographing into (sun)light, you add a fresh, cheerful feel to your photo. The chance of lens flare is very high. Lens flare is generally seen as a lens fault, but you can also deliberately use these reflections of light in your lens to add a summery feel to your image.

f/2.5, 1/400s, 100 ISO @ 85mm
When you photograph in the direction of a bright light source, things usually go wrong if your camera controls the exposure automatically. Your subject in the foreground becomes too dark.

You can solve this by exposing manually, but it is often also advisable to use fill flash on your subject or use a reflector to bounce some of the bright backlight back onto your model.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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