Best Times to Shoot

Beautiful photography is all about beautiful light.  Whether indoor or outdoor, morning or night, you can either create the perfect lighting or let the natural conditions decide for you. It’s hard to beat the perfect color tones found early in the morning or right before dusk.

If you’re wanting and outdoor, natural light session then the absolute best time of day is the last hour and a half before sunset.  Sunrise light is great too and we’re more than happy to do that, but it’s not often that all the subjects in the session are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at 530 in the morning  Basically, as long as you have some gorgeous side-lighting, then you have everything you need to make the most flattering, beautiful portraits possible.

One thing we’re asked about all of the time is if we have enough light to shoot portraits when it’s cloudy?  Well, if it’s also raining, then no.  But if it’s just cloudy then it’s actually ideal light to photograph in.  All of the skin tones are soft and evenly list, almost with a dreamy feel to it.  So, as long as the rain stays away on your session day, we don’t mind it being overcast at all.