Bright Sunlight Photos: Don’t Fall for It!
At every graduation, wedding, and playdate, you can find some amateur photographer wielding a camera and saying, “Hey, come over here in the sun so we have some light!”
People: Direct sunlight doesn’t make good portraits. It makes terrible portraits. It creates ugly shadows from people’s noses and eye sockets. It emphasizes wrinkles. And it makes your subject squint (left).
Pros prefer open shade—go under a tree on a sunny day—or overcast skies. The result is far more flattering (above, right).
Your descendants will thank you.
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Adapted from Pogue’s Basics, Flatiron Books. Order here.
