What filters for outdoor portraits?
Hugh 78 wrote: It's going to be evening (around 6-6:30PM) and in a lightly shaded area. There will be dense trees/foliage behind the subjects and their backs will be to the sun (but the sun will be behind the trees). Not ideal, I know, but I can't change the location.
That sounds like a fine time and location for a portrait session to me.
Late day, low sun, some shade, trees... That's what I look for when scheduling my portrait sessions.I used more filters for portraits when I was stuck on daylight balance with film. Raw makes color balance so easy to deal with I've only used polarizers and occasionally ND filters since switching to digital. A pol can be handy. Not only does it do it's normal thing for color, when using fill flash in bright daylight it blocks some light allowing a larger aperture when you are already maxed out at the flash sync speed and lowest ISO. That's all I use the NDs for: getting the exposure down when using large apertures and already maxed out at the sync speed and lowest ISO.
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