While shooting portraits at the beach can be great fun, harsh lighting from the direct sunlight can result in blown-out highlights, distracting shadows, or squinting from your model.
This lesson will show a technique that we like to use for modifying direct sunlight.
Using 3 – 77″ x 77″ LitePanels, we constructed an outdoor shooting tent. The left side, facing the sun, has a translucent LitePanel fabric to transmit and soften the sunlight. The ceiling panel also has the translucent fabric.
The right side has a gold reflective LitePanel fabric to bounce light back into our model, creating a nice fill and rim light.
shot above was taken with a slave 550ex speedlite on 45 degrees approx. – direct flash – FEL on face.
