Shooting Fashion Portraits Outdoors: How to Balance Flash and Natural Light Like a Pro

Shooting Fashion Portraits Outdoors: How to Balance Flash and Natural Light Like a Pro

There is a specific kind of frustration that comes from arriving at a beautiful outdoor location with a model, a concept, and a mood board, and then watching the sky blow out your background into a pale, featureless blob. I ran into this constantly when I was shooting weddings, and honestly it followed me into my early beauty work too. The background either drowns everything out or the subject ends up underexposed and muddy.