The golden hour sun is beautiful, magical and one of my favourite times to take pictures. The only problem with that is that it's only available for a limited time each day, and that's also weather permitting.. duh.
So what do you do when you want a beautiful golden hour light, but the sun isn't cooperating? Create your own!
Here is the before image with just natural light. It's okay but unless I blow out the background or go silhouette there is nothing interesting.
85mm f2.5 at 1/250th shot with Nikon d750 and the 85 1.8G lens
Looks like the sun decided to peek in on our shoot, eh? Nope, it's just my SB900 at 1/2 power outside the house, with a CTO gel attached. So next time you are at a shoot, and wish you had some amazing light pouring through the window, bust out your flash!