{"id":32054,"date":"2023-04-14T15:31:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T20:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32054"},"modified":"2023-04-20T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T22:04:09","slug":"portraits-4-on-sunny-days-use-open-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32054","title":{"rendered":"Portraits 4 &#8211; On Sunny Days Use Open Shade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/120604_Kristina12_5D_4051_w7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/120604_Kristina12_5D_4051_w7.jpg\" alt=\"Kristina\" class=\"wp-image-2760\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kristina in open shade.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On sunny days open shade will give you the look of a cloudy bright day, but you have a lot less options as to where you can shoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080502_Catherine_5D_9169.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080502_Catherine_5D_9169.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20315\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cat in open shade.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find open shade on the side of a building opposite the sun, or under a bunch of trees. Cat was on the west side of a building when the sun was in the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111008_Christian01_5D_4334_w7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111008_Christian01_5D_4334_w7.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait in Open Shade on a Sunny Day\" class=\"wp-image-1703\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Christian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Christian was on the north side of a building with a nice graffiti wall when the sun was high in the southern sky.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/061007-Jael-5D-2244-w8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/061007-Jael-5D-2244-w8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/061007-Jael-5D-2244-w8.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/061007-Jael-5D-2244-w8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/061007-Jael-5D-2244-w8-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/061007-Jael-5D-2244-w8-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jael.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Our house has a south facing covered porch which provides nice open shade on sunny days. Kristina (top) and Jael (above) were both photographed on our front porch.  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180902-Leah-5D3-2135-w7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180902-Leah-5D3-2135-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20852\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Leah in the park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you can find a place with plenty of trees they will give you open shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32043\">Portraits 1 &#8211; Introduction<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32046\">Portraits 2 &#8211; Sunlight Can Be Really Bad Portrait Light<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32052\">Portraits 3 &#8211; Shoot On Cloudy Bright Days<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32054\">Portraits 4 &#8211; On Sunny Days Use Open Shade<\/a>  (this article)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32057\">Portraits 5 &#8211; On Sunny Days Use the Sun as Backlight<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32062\">Portraits 6 &#8211; Sunlight as Your Main Light<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On sunny days open shade will give you the look of a cloudy bright day, but you have a lot less options as to where you can shoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32080,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32054\/revisions\/32080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}