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ben egbert wrote:
6. I hope to have them with no direct sun and use fill flash
If you are talking about on camera fill flash, please, please don't do it! Flash on camera fill is just about the ugliest light there is. Actually it's not lighting, it's illumination.
ben egbert wrote:
Around 10 AM with light at our back or side.
This is way too late in the morning for my tastes. You need to start early in the morning and shoot until the light gets ugly. You'll need to have them in shade at 10am, the sun will be too harsh by then. What you really want is golden hour light, either at sunrise or sunset. Can you do two segments, one in the morning and one late afternoon?
One of the more effective ways to light an environmental portrait is to use the sun behind the subject as a rim light. Shoot with woods behind them, peeking through the trees for rim light. In front of them and behind you is a big open space, so that the warm sky is a big main source. You might want to help it along with a reflector.
ben egbert wrote:
4. Straight on or with them at an angle? My grandson is a big boy.
5. Full body or from say the waist up, or some other place,
You need to do a series of images for them, from close up to far away. Go to Flikr and search for "engagement". You'll see a variety of images, from sublime to horrible, but they should give you some posing ideas. I think the main thing is to get them to interact with each other. Look for photos with plus sized subjects. You can study the tricks they used to present them in the most flattering way. Usually putting them behind something and also giving them plenty of room in the frame helps.
Be sure to take some photos with a telephoto with a large aperture to separate them from the background.
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