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The $25 Tool That Changed How I Light Outdoor Portraits (And How to Use It in 4 Ways)
Most of my working life is spent chasing landscape light, but every season I take on a handful of location portrait sessions — workshop participants wanting headshots, editorial work, the occasional commissioned family session in the field. And for years I wrestled with the same problem: gorgeous ambient light behind my subject, flat and unflattering light on their face. I’d either blow out the background trying to expose for the foreground, or underexpose the person trying to hold the sky.