Chris and I were getting set up for a family portrait session last night at the beach and he started doing some funky poses behind our diffuser panel just for laughs. I shot some silhouettes  and noticed something pretty revealing. Even when you’re up high on the cliff you get two distinct shadows. One is from the direct sun and one is from the water reflecting quite a bit of light upward at Chris and putting higher soft shadow on the panel.

One of the reasons I love shooting near sunset on the beach, the reflected light can extend your shoot time to about 20 minutes past sunset. Working at the beach doesn’t totally suck either.

Next post will be some images from the session and a special thanks goes out to Stephanie, Matt and Josiah for letting us photograph you.

Thanks for reading!