Comments on: How to take outdoor portraits

By: How to photograph a wedding

How to photograph a wedding — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 04:04:40 +0000

[...] memories on the line. It’s a great way to learn. You can also check out some of our other guides to help you bone up your photo [...]

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:00:59 +0000

Great article – because of its simplicity. Thank you.

By: SunLight

SunLight — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:23:34 +0000

[...] the way, a little tutorial about direct sunlight and why it is not (always) so good… Read it here. [...]

By: Thamer Al-Hassan

Thamer Al-Hassan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:14:00 +0000

I learned a lot from this post. I hope to see more bout off camera flash techniques….thanks!

By: nathan ciurzynski

nathan ciurzynski — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:26:55 +0000

Great post! Thanks for sharing the info.

By: Jason Collin Photography

Jason Collin Photography — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:53:13 +0000

Thanks for showing the sunset portraits with and without gels. I will definitely go out and buy a gel set soon as I will be more often making sunset portraits this year.

By: ageitgey

ageitgey — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:30:55 +0000

@andonuts388

I’ll defer to you on that. “Exploding ball of flame” is close enough for me.

By: andonuts388

andonuts388 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:31:15 +0000

“The sun is just another light source. Just because it is an exploding ball of flame…”

more of an incandescent ball of fusing hydrogen atoms

By: ageitgey

ageitgey — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:52:37 +0000

@maaate:

Thanks! The mistake has been corrected.

By: maaate

maaate — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:46:09 +0000

“The sun is just another light source. Just because it is an exploding ball of flame four light years away”

How long does it take the sun’s light to reach earth?

The distance from the Earth to the Sun varies because the Earth’s orbit about the Sun is elliptical.At it’s closest, the distance is 91,402,000 miles and it’s farthest distance it is 94,512,000 miles.This gives an average distance of 92,957,000 miles. Light travels at 186,282 miles per second. Dividing the average distance by the speed of light gives 499.01225 seconds which is 8.3168708 minutes.

Rounded off, let’s say 8 minutes and 18 seconds.
From these guys
hxxp://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts……….
http://tinyurl.com/yfmsc35

Hope this helps, keep up the good work

maaate