Cloudy Picnic

My wife and I decided to take advantage of the cooler weather last week and enjoy a picnic at a local park. We made sandwiches and tea, grabbed a blanket and set off in my truck.

The overcast day lent itself perfectly to natural light photography. I snapped a few shots of my wife using manual settings and the flash turned off. I slightly overexposed each shot to help fill in some shadow since I wasn’t using a reflector.

I love shooting on overcast days. Without the sun to cast hard shadows, faces seem to radiate a natural glow.

While we were there, we watched a man train his hunting dog to retrieve decoys from the lake. The young canine did quite well except for the occasional failed retrieval, which seemed to send the dog into a frenzied search.

When the temperature finally became cool enough to be uncomfortable, we headed home for the evening with some new pictures on my memory card.