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Tit for Tat (the no shade hat)

This one is for Ree – I like to pretend PW pops over here every so often to see what her Aussie stalker is up to now.  I may be deluded, but hey, you say ‘deluded’, I say ‘optimistic’.

Today Ree shared some photos of her Marlboro Man (her hot cowboy hubby) which showed his eyes shadowed by hat shade.  I commented that I have the same problems with hat shadow – but that I have a technique to deal with it.   It’s called FULL SHADOW.

That’s right. Sun behind the person and metering for the light on the face allows you to see eyes.  I have only taken 22 gazillion photos to learn this fact.  And for the record, I still take plenty of hat shadow photos – cause you cannot always choose your time of day, or your sun-subject angles.

Anyway – here is Mr Incredible competing in a local campdraft on the weekend – he is riding the fabulous Jill (mother of this little guy and owner of these calendar-worthy eyes) and won his first placing in a draft (he has only been competing for a couple of years, so he is stoked!).

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See how the sun is BEHIND him in this shot – light is falling on his back and lighting up around the edges of his hat? I use my trusty little zoom lense at full throttle (right out at 200mm) and with the sun hood on to stop any glare (sun shining directly into the lense).
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Same for this one, as he lined up for presentations to get a yellow ribbon for fourth place in the Novice Draft.

So that’s it.  My public service for the day: Sun behind hats.

Keep it in mind – its totally worth it.



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So you don’t miss eyes like this.

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