Tips & Techniques

Natural Light technique from Stephen Knuth

When shooting in natural light:
Pose your subjects in front of the sun, aim your lens to shoot with the sun behind them and make sure you are standing in their shadow to create your own “soft box diffuser”.  Put your settings at ISO 100, 1/1600, f/2.5. You’ll get perfect skintones and capture a nice rim light behind them!  Once you have the sun behind the subject, slightly tilt your lens and get the edge of the sun to poke out. This will allow a small sun flare to appear on your images.

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