Flash Outdoors in Harsh Light: What a Sydney Portrait Shoot Taught Me About Artificial Light

Flash Outdoors in Harsh Light: What a Sydney Portrait Shoot Taught Me About Artificial Light

I have spent the better part of twenty years avoiding flash outdoors. My whole philosophy lives in existing light, in waiting for the sun to do something interesting, in the patience that comes from standing in a cold Oregon river at 5am because the mountain will reveal itself when it wants to, not when I want it to. Flash felt like forcing the issue. It felt like cheating the landscape.