Take advantage of the beautiful weather iso#
This means if you typically shoot at ISO 100, you’ll need to bump your ISO up to 400-800, sometimes needing to go as high as 1600. When shooting on a cloudy day, you will need to boost your ISO to compensate for 2-3 stops of light reduction from the clouds. Tip #7: Adjust Your Settings for Reduced Light If there’s time to plan ahead for wardrobe, brush up on your color theory and choose colors to enhance the mood in the image or establish a complementary or monochromatic color scheme. When set against the drab backdrop of an overcast sky, bright colors tend to pop a bit more and can be used to create visual interest and emphasize the focal point in a photo. A clean background can set the scene for an elegant portrait and draw more focus to your subject, especially if you follow the next tip. Check your histogram and enable your highlight alert to ensure you only blow out details in the sky, not on your subject’s skin. This is one of those situations where it’s okay (even encouraged) to blow out the highlights for effect. In the opposite direction from the previous tip, you can embrace the bland nature of the cloud cover and use the dreary sky as a canvas to create a clean backdrop. Tip #5: Go Bright for a Clean Backdrop Cloudy weather photoshoots present opportunities for clean, minimalist skies This maximizes the potential of cloudy day photography so long as there is some color behind the clouds. By lowering ambient exposure to retain more highlights and using flash to expose your subject’s skin, you can take advantage of the cloudy sky to capture a moody portrait that wouldn’t work as well in a clear, blue sky. One thing flash photography allows photographers to do is add drama to an image. Off-camera flash definitely opens up the creative possibilities of any shoot, and we recommend familiarizing yourself with various flash photography techniques. Tip #4: Get Moody with Off-Camera Flash Example of incredible skies during a cloudy weather photoshoot If you’re shooting at eye level with your subjects and you ask them to look down or off to the side, you’ll likely struggle to find any catchlights in their eyes however, if you position yourself at a higher vantage point, either by standing on a bench or asking your subjects to sit, you’ll find the cloudy sky provides a great source for catchlights as your subjects look up at you. In addition to serving as a giant soft box, a cloudy sky can also stand in as a large reflector. A large open space will allow more light to fall on your subject, but the dark object will cut or block some of the light falling on that side. To subtract light (see the image below), place the subject next to a dark object (building, tree, or the black side of your 5-in-1 reflector) and position your subject so that the dark object reduces the light reflecting on one side of your subject’s face. You can also use flash to add directional light.
It helps to have an assistant so that he/she can hold the reflector. To add light, use the white or silver side of a 5-in-1 reflector and position it at a 45-degree angle in relation to the camera and the subject. If you want to add shadows for dimension, you can easily create directional light using one of two methods to either add or subtract light. Tip #2: Create Directional Light With Overcast Skiesįlat lighting is not your only option when in cloudy day photography. The clouds should provide enough cover to keep your subject from squinting while you direct your subject into a pose and cue whatever expression you’re after. Go ahead and place your subject in a bright, open area.
Take advantage of the beautiful weather skin#
While some photographers fear flat lighting, it has a time and place, and portraiture calls on it often.įor closeup portraits, flat light reduces the appearance of lines, blemishes, and imperfections in the skin to create a more flattering look.
One of the most popular lighting modifiers on the market is a soft box, which diffuses & softens the light passing through it. Clouds, which essentially act like giant soft boxes in the sky, diffuse sunlight on a grand scale, often resulting in flat lighting. Photographers spend an enormous amount of money on lighting and lighting modifiers. Tip #1: The Sky is a Softbox with Cloudy Day Portrait Photography
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