Take pictures in natural light. How to better avoid shadows?

The most taboo of portrait shooting is to use the direct sunlight overhead. It produces black shadows around the eye sockets, nose and chin. In order to avoid this destructive light effect, professional portrait photographers like to choose an open shady place, such as a big tree on a sunny day, where there is a lot of reflected light around to make up for the local shadow and form a smooth shadowless illumination on the face of the person.

If you have to shoot portraits at noon, you can easily create an open shade condition, that is, let the subject turn his back to the sun. Technically, it's called backlight. This will challenge your camera exposure meter, and the following methods can solve this problem. In order to improve the effect of shooting the above picture in direct sunlight, you can use a translucent white umbrella to block the noon sunshine. Another way is to use this light to solve the problem, but the strong light around the subject will interfere with your exposure meter, resulting in underexposure. To avoid this, you should get exposure readings directly from the subject's face near him. Or if your camera is equipped with a spotlight, use it to measure the reflected light of the subject's face.

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