How to Photograph Wildflowers in Moody Weather (Lessons from a New Zealand Lupine Shoot)

How to Photograph Wildflowers in Moody Weather (Lessons from a New Zealand Lupine Shoot)

There’s a specific kind of morning I used to talk myself out of. Sky looks rough, the light seems flat, and staying in bed feels like the rational choice. It wasn’t until I started studying how working landscape photographers actually make decisions in the field that I realized how much I was leaving on the table by waiting for “perfect” conditions. In this William Patino tutorial shot in New Zealand’s South Island, he walks through a full lupine photography session that starts in fog and near-darkness and ends with a rainbow hanging over a mountain range.