One day in June, 2024.
An interesting aspect of these photos is how much the light changes and, more striking, how much it changes on Lorato’s skin as the day progresses.
This was a very quick, off the cuff, run and gun shoot that started about 4:00 PM in pretty hard sunlight, transitioned into the most golden of golden hour light, and finally into twilight as the sun dropped behind the mountains.
When I first started editing these photos I found myself fighting the tones as the sun got lower. What I mean by that is that as the sun neared the horizon, Lorato’s skin became more saturated with yellow and orange tones. Golden hour was gonna golden hour. I struggled with toning down the golden hues on her skin. Finally, I just thought to myself, why?
I finally decided to just embrace the tones produced by the changing light.
