Shoot with Gavin

The shoot was somewhat hectic. But, hey, professionalism is all about consistency of the results! So this was an awesome opportunity to drive this message!
What worked:

• Use of even a bare flash against bright sun.
• Use powder on model to mask sweat.
• Try yet another pose and/or location, even when it looks like all the possibilities are exhausted.
• Camera in manual mode with flash in TTL. This forces me to make explicit choices of aperture and exposure. I then monitor the results using histogram.

What did not work:

• clothes with bold horizontal stripes - surprise!
• bare flash in other circumstances - way too harsh even for a male model.
  

If anything, the shoot emphasized importance of having a makeup artist on set and model's ability to pose.