I totally agree: sunny=shadows.. If you have to do it that day you could use a flash it you know how to.. or otherwise do what everyone tells you not to do: photograph against the sun...

Precisely! You can even see in the unretouched parts of the pics that there are shadows all over the place. Nonetheless, it's brilliant. I would totally have every single one of these framed and hung prominently in my house. $250 is a lot of money, but hey, for high art like this, it's a bargain.

First you have to take the camera off of automatic ! You have to use a fill flash and you need to know how to white balance. The digital age has made everyone a "professional" ! Besides the "retouch" attempt , this lady must have played hooky the day they study posing.

You don't always need overcast if you know what you're doing. It depends on the look you're after. Midday sun is usually what you don't want.

The article actually says: "She said the shadows were really bad on the beautiful, clear, sunny day and that her professor never taught her to retouch photos,” What part of that implies there were no shadows?

I believe on a sunny day a flash can be used to bring out the facial features.

"Ideal weather for outdoor photography is always overcast".....unless you are qualified to call yourself a professional. In that case you'd know how to use off camera lighting, or at least scrims and reflectors etc. Shoot however you prefer and I agree that you overcast can make for an easier time, but to say that it's "always ideal" to have overcast weather is absolutely ridiculous. Maybe you didn't mean it that literally at all and you really know your stuff, it just drives me nuts when people claim that this or that condition is the ONLY way to shoot something when it's just that they don't know how what the f**k they're doing and need to invest in some more skill. I've seen so many cringe worthy outdoor shoots happen where I know damn well the panic the photographer is going to face when they get home and realize what they've done after getting their first DSLR, shooting a couple shots and thinking "I'm ready for anything".

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I took what he wrote to mean he was saying there were no shadows on them as they were posed for the pictures. He's too literate to be unable to understand the relationship between light and shadow.

The Facebook page is definitely a fake. It was set up after the story broke, presumably as a joke.