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your subjects, poses, settings and composition are all great, but these outdoor portraits of yours are all held back by harsh contrast ratios. Fill flash is okay, but you have to take the flash off-camera and remote trigger it if you want it to look good, which gets even more expensive. so either
1) i've recommended this to you before as anon, but get a 5-in-1 reflector. Pros use them all the time. They're not super-expensive, they weigh about three ounces, they don't require batteries or triggers. All you have to do is use your tripod, 10-second delay, and move your reflector to the desired position, or get some assistant to hold it for you. 5-in-1 has a white side, silver side, gold side (my favorite for portraits), a black side, and a central mesh core that you can use as a scrim to completely eliminate shadows on your subject.
2) make your own reflector. white cardboard + aluminum foil = $0.23. Or use a three dollar windshield shade. You won't get the warming side that the 5-in-1 has, or the scrim, and you can't fold it up into a 6-inch disk, but it's fukken cheap.
one way or the other, you've got to get some light into those shadows, because you're not doing those jawlines any justice.
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