Beautiful Backlighting

A classic "rookie mistake" of photography is facing your subject directly into the sun. Next time you are taking pictures of people, either place them in the shade or have the sun at their back (just make sure the sun isn't causing a glare in your lens). Then use a fill flash or bounce the light back into their faces with a reflector, which is what I did with these bridals. (If you don't have one, use a white poster board, they work great) The backlighting gives the "halo effect" that is really quite beautiful!