The Natural Light Portrait Book

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NOTES: Big, busy scenes like this are more challenging than you’d think. The challenge is having your subject stand out, while not having the scene so busy that they get lost in the frame. The first part was to have our subject wear a color that would stand out. My go-to color for that is red, but with the reddish tones already all over the building, we thought a bright blue would stand out nicely, especially since we didn’t have a red dress anyway. That certainly helped sway the judges. I think we were particularly lucky that somehow a trickle of light cut through the clouds and landed right on our subject to help her stand out even ...