how to take a family portrait on a bright sunny day…

It’s a bright sunny morning, 10:00am with the lovely bright summer sun. So, how do you take a photograph of a family outdoors without having everything blown out super bright and leaving way too many dark circles under everyone’s eyes? Well, here’s one shot that’s in the sun, not shade and here are my settings.…

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little miss…

My settings: ISO – 200 (outside on a sunny day but in the shade) shutter speed – 1/500 aperture – 2.8  (wanting her to be in focus, but not the wall) lens – 50mm 1.2L

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beautiful little pair

My settings: ISO – 200 (outside on a sunny day but in the shade) shutter speed – 1/320 aperture – 4  (wanted to be sure they’re both sharply in focus) lens – 50mm 1.2L

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little man…

My Manual settings: ISO – 200  (it was a sunny morning) aperture – 4.0  (I wanted to get some of the fabulous trees in the background) shutter speed – 1/1000 second (just used that speed to balance out the incoming light so it wasn’t overexposed) lens – 50mm 1.2L

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