~FYI~ Mirka Psak Photography - NJ children's and family photographer

I was thinking to myself that it would be sort of neat to show you all, why it is so important to do photo sessions at certain times during the day.

So I must thank my little assistant Logan, who surprisingly sort of stood still for me in the morning and afternoon, while I was doing this experiment so I could share.

Some people get super excited for bright sunny day, I fear it lol.

I will 1000x rather get up at 6am and do a session first thing in the morning, then shoot at noon. The difference in light is AMAZING!

The light looses it's magic pretty early on summer days, after 9am it just goes flat and you loose all the detail, not to mention all the harsh shadows that now start showing on the skin.

Of course, you can take pictures all day, in a studio or controlled environment (such as urban alley or warehouse...) or if you know how to use off camera flash and all that jazz or if you're not chasing after toddlers (as most of my sessions are) and can put your model where you need it/ which would be somewhere in a solid shade ha!...

Nothing compares to first morning light and couple hours before sunset light *I have to get pictures of that for you later lol*

So here it is, first thing AM on left and around 3PM on right.

Can you see the difference? What would you rather your portraits look like?

This is why I schedule my sessions the way I do, because I want magic in your images:)

And magic happens with twinkling of light in the tree leafs, and they only twinkle couple times a day:)