Tip: Better Outdoor Portraits This is an easy technique I read about a long time ago, and it works really well. I use it a lot when shooting weddings and portraits.Outdoor portraits can often end up with a washed-out and boring sky when you set your camera to correctly expose the person�s face post by haiyan701. But if you set the exposure to capture the sky perfectly, you end up with a very dark or even silhouetted person. We all know you can use fill flash outdoors to correct this, but even then the exposure can be a bit unpredictable if left up to the camera.The technique I like to use is:take a meter reading from the skyset your camera to Manual modeset the aperture according to the depth of field you wantset your shutter speed to correctly expose the sky (based on the earlier reading)turn your flash on and set it to E-TTL (or whatever the equivalent is on non-Canon cameras)You may need to tweak your aperture setting (or ISO, if shooting digital) if the required shutter ... Read more »