For our portrait lighting class, we had to take an outdoor portrait balancing our flash with the available light. I used my sister, Brittany, as my subject, and I shot this in my backyard. This is the first portrait that I am really proud of! I was very happy with it.

Here are a couple of others I liked. One is really flat, but I think the background is pretty so I'm posting it.


Canon 30D
70mm lens
ISO 1000 (I thought I had changed it to 200, but apparently not!)
1/50 sec at f/22