What if you are somewhere and you want to take a doll photo and you have no choice but to shoot into the sun? Go ahead and take it anyway, just be careful not to shoot directly into the sun (as in having the sun in your picture) because the sun is not good for your camera sensor. It won't be a very good photo, because the doll(s) will be little more than dark silhouettes, but if you are shooting with an SLR with RAW capabilities, the image can be fixed in Photoshop. However if you just have a point-and-shoot or phone to take pictures with, the photo won't turn out very well. But maybe it's still better than nothing.
I was at the lake recently and the lake is to the south of me, so I had no choice but to shoot into the sun. Here's the photo as taken..
I was at the lake recently and the lake is to the south of me, so I had no choice but to shoot into the sun. Here's the photo as taken..
With a little Photoshop work involving Layers, I managed to turn it into this.....
Same with this scene taken in Waterton Lakes a few years ago - I had no choice but to shoot almost directly into the sun......
This photo isn't quite as bad as the one with the penguins because it was taken much further back, but I did improve it in Photoshop..
Unfortunately teaching someone how to do this kind of photo manipulation in Photoshop is beyond the scope of my Tutorial.
*The key thing to remember is that when there's no choice but to take photos with the sun overhead or behind the doll, that taking photos further back and including more of the scene, will give better results than trying to shoot close-up portraits.
*The key thing to remember is that when there's no choice but to take photos with the sun overhead or behind the doll, that taking photos further back and including more of the scene, will give better results than trying to shoot close-up portraits.
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