Lindsay & Scott’s Sunny Summer Engagement

Introduction:
I was introduced to Lindsay and Scott by Heather another awesome photographer. The weather in Kingston Ontario is finally getting warmer and looking much more like summer and while shooting this session I had the “sunny summer” theme in my mind. After meeting up with them over coffee late in the afternoon and hearing more about their wedding details we really didn’t have much time to take these photos. Luckily we had a little bit of sun left that was able to work it’s magic!

Technique:
The idea behind this shoot was a “sunny summer”. So I tried to incorporate as much of the setting sun as possible. Obviously shooting directly into the sun introduces tons of problems with flare, contrast, sharpness, and metering issues. But as long as you try to meter for the couples skin tones and are comfortable playing with the Curves tool in Photoshop to fix contrast you’re good to go! A wonderful way to use the sun is to position it directly behind the couple and use the golden sunlight as a back/hairlight to outline the couple from the background. Sometimes you might need a reflector or a flash attached to your camera fired at low power to add some fill light in case the flare is too great! Also don’t worry too much about getting bad photos when shooting like this as Photoshop makes a HUGE difference!

Photos:

Here is a photo showing the post processing I use to deal with lens flare from the sun!