Night portraits

Wendy Evans roams the city streets after dark, armed with a camera and a flashgun

- Wendy Evans

Shooting portraits in daylight is all well and good but there’s a curious kind of magic at work when the sun sets and most of the ambient light is provided by street lighting, cars, retail establishments and neon signs. If there’s not enough light falling on your subject without ramping the ISO up to blizzard levels then the flashgun becomes your lighting source of choice. However, you don’t want to overpower what background light there is, so the aim is to combine the two for stylish, colourful night-time portraits.