A typical rule of thumb is to keep the sun behind you, known as back lighting.
A typical rule of thumb is to keep the sun behind you, known as back lighting. This helps to separate your subject from the background, ensuring they are well lit. It also helps combat overexposure and glare that can affect an image that is taken into the sun. However side lighting can illuminate a subject on one side, leaving the opposite side in deep shadow, which creates high contrast images which can be nice too.