Saturday, Sept 6th I had a family session booked for 6:00 pm. I photographed the first family at 5:30 on my “Western” Set. It was overcast – but the lighting was soft and even – something that is perfect for outdoor portraits!
When we were done this small family – we noticed a few raindrops – but it was okay and the rest of the family arrived and we immediately went to the west side of my property to photograph the family of 10. I had just set up the pose and taken 13 shots and it started raining – and we ran back inside. We waited about 5 minutes and it had stopped raining – and out we went again! The following three images were taken with it being very overcast – and by the time we were photographing the last family I noticed it get darker and darker! The lighting was so bad – we had just moved to another location when the wind whipped up and we raced inside – just missing the torrential downpour!
We hadn’t photographed everything that they had wanted and so we scheduled another date and 5 days later the family of 4 came back and these are the photos from that session!
And we got some great images! Manitoba weather is very unpredictable and we often have to book ‘rain dates’ – but it gets difficult at this time of year as so many of my clients want outdoor portraits – that I literally run out of days to photograph! So, if you’re thinking of having an outdoor portrait done – starting booking for July – and you’ll be guaranteed that we will be able to reschedule if necessary! An advantage to using the early summer months to photograph is that we have daylight longer and so we have more time!
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