Hi Don. We were sort of fighting the elements on our shoot also. Once the sun got higher in the sky at about 11:00 we were getting strong shadows under her chin, nose and eyes, so I opted to delete several of those and turn her around away from the sun and used a 4'x4' silver reflector to put light back onto her while creating the back lighting (rim lighting) effect round her head and arms.
I tried using both manual mode from the camera meter and aperature priorty mode and found myself deleting the bad ones as we worked on getting the right shots in.
On the shot of your wife, the first thing that I noticed is the different skin tone from your studio shots of her. Not pink. From the look of this shot that you have here, it would appear that the sun was high and directly towards her except for her being in the shade, which would have made a reflector difficult to use with that light angle. Without me being there, I don't know if you had a way to turn her with the sun at her back or not, or if you would have been able to get yourself or an assistant at a different angle to use a reflector to put light back into the shot. Good to see you getting outside for some natural settings though. It's still a good shot of her.
Thanks for your comments.
Jim
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