Perfect Portraits

These step-by-step instructions from professional photographer Kirk Voclain should give excellent outdoor portraits. The instructions were taken from an interview with Kirk on the Light Source podcast.

Equipment
• Tripod if available
• Canon camera (Kirk says only works with Canon)
• Canon 580 EX Speedlight Flash
• Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Lens
Steps
• Setting: Outdoor Portrait
• Direction of light is important
• Attach Flash directly to camera Hot Shoe
• Set camera for +/- 1/3 Exposure Bracketing
• Set camera for RAW for post proprocessing flexibility
• Set Flash to -1 1/3 (acts a fill flash)
• Set White Balance for Flash
• Set camera for Aperture Priority
• Set aperature to 4.5 to 6.3 (5.6 is good)