Willow Brugh by Rich Gibson

I had the chance to visit and to take some portraits of my friend Willow. I like how this picture seems to recreate all the bad photo tropes of an Eastern European passport photo :-) She was lit from a bank of windows with northern exposure on her left side (right side in the photo) and by a flash with an umbrella on the right side. You can see the umbrella reflected in her eyes.

I need to try setting up a large light source, like a whole white wall, so that the specular highlights are not visible. OTOH, it is fun to see what gets reflected.