Video Tutorials
Sun Behind Your Subject: A Field Guide to Natural Light and Fill Flash for Outdoor Portraits
Most of my working life is spent chasing light for landscapes. I’m the person standing in a freezing river at dawn, waiting on a mountain that genuinely does not care about my schedule. Portraits are a different discipline, but the underlying logic is the same: light placement is everything, and getting it wrong means you walked away with nothing worth keeping. I was watching a tutorial recently from Tony and Chelsea Northrup, filmed at Harkness Park in Waterford, Connecticut, and even after two decades behind a camera, it crystallized something I’d been doing half-right for years.