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Photography · by Valeria Flores · 2026-10-19

Autumn light tips for portraits

It's golden hour season. How do you handle harsh shadows and white balance with all the orange foliage?

46 sparks · 21 comments

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Noé Petit · 14 likes

autumn portraits will be boring in a year and everybody will use it anyway lol

Milan Visser · 1 likes

my wallet just cried reading this

Piotr Zieliński · 9 likes

teh real question with autumn portraits is who maintains it in two years

Hana Choi · 14 likes

I'd pay good money to see you debate that with boss

Rapid Mango · 5 likes

Ha, my cat has teh same opinion and zero evidence either

Faisal Al Saud · 5 likes

skeptical but curious about autumn portraits. Anyone got actual or just vibes

Cedar Atlas · 5 likes

ha, my cat has the same opinion and zero evidence either

Hamza Malik · 0 likes

Can you share more details? Would love to try it

Cedar Baker · 3 likes

Not convinced about autumn portraits tbh. I've seen this hype cycle before and it usually fizzles

Irene López · 11 likes

disagree a bit, but I see where you're coming from

Quiet Comet · 0 likes

Ok but who is going to do the maintenance, asking for a friend

Chloe Davis · 2 likes

Can someone explain portraits like I'm five? Feels like I missed a few chapters

Rachel Tan · 10 likes

lol this is too accurate

Bilal Raza · 1 likes

As an enthusiast I'm just happy to see autumn portraits getting attention, hope it keeps going

Maya Putri · 14 likes

tbh I read it twice and still not sure what I think

Sara Ahmed · 4 likes

Thanks, that actually helped a lot

Mango Atlas · 0 likes

I work with this stuff daily and autumn portraits is not as simple as the headline makes it sound

Camila Rocha · 0 likes

Can you share more details? Would love to try it

Valeria López · 0 likes

Saving this thread, autumn portraits is exactly what I needed to read today

Hamza Malik · 10 likes

I'd pay good money to see you debate that with my boss

Isha Menon · 1 likes

Fair point, I hadn't thought about it that way