Shooting with Natural Light

You want me to post my own unperfect pictures?  Dream on.

LOL, I am teasing.  I am arguing more about shooting in harsh sunlight.  I am not saying the settings you suggested are wrong, they are fine.  I am saying that if you have your choice of locations whilst doing outdoor portrait work I would pick shade.  You know as well as I do about the dynamic range of cameras (especially digital).  If you are exposing for the highlights you will lose detail especially in bright light that is contrasty.  This has nothing to do with proper exposure. 

Unfortunately I am forced to shoot a lot in the sun.  I can't control where a wedding ceremony will take place and at the Salt Lake LDS temple there are certain spots that you have to take photographs, like the bride and groom in front of the temple so it's in the background.  I choose to shoot at a low ISO, expose for the highlights and digitally bring back shadow detail.
You can compensate for some problems with fill light from a reflector or flash, but not on huge landscape shots like the couple with the temple thing I deal with all the time.

I will post one, sorry I am at work and had to pull it from my website so there is no exif data.  This was full sun.  The dress is slightly blown but I did that rather than having an overall dark picture.  Maybe someone else would do it different... but I believe it worked.