Even without expensive light equipment you can make pro-quality portraits just by opening your front door and go outside. The garden is a very natural environment for child portraits and there’s actually nothing like a cloudy day to give you brilliant light for photography. Clouds work like a huge softbox in the sky, and gives you an even, soft light very suitable for portraits. Your subject won’t squint and you don’t have any harsh contrasts and burned-out, overexposed areas on the photo. And yet, you have plenty of light from the sky to use a reflector, so you can light your subject’s face with warm, golden light looking like a nice, sunny day.
