Lens Choice, ND Filters, and Strobe Balance for Outdoor Senior Portraits

Lens Choice, ND Filters, and Strobe Balance for Outdoor Senior Portraits

Every outdoor portrait session I’ve ever botched came down to the same problem: I was fighting the ambient light instead of controlling it. You either blow out the background chasing exposure, or you wrestle with high-speed sync and lose half your strobe power in the process. It’s a solvable problem, but the solution requires making a few deliberate decisions before you ever fire a frame. That’s exactly what Jay P. Morgan walks through in this tutorial from The Slanted Lens, covering lens choice, camera settings, and strobe balance for a full senior portrait session shot entirely outdoors.