Location portrait

I love the idea of a location portrait, a context, sometimes a story and fingers crossed, a free and interesting backdrop. But for me the best time for a really evocative location portrait is sun up or sun down. For both of these the drawbacks are difficult for the average amateur which I like to think I am. Sun rise means driving through the night to your desired location, setting up in the dark and fingers crossed the sun actually makes an appearance rather than the sky just getting overcast and light. The sunset gives the shooter and subject plenty of time to arrive, set up and shoot, but the packing away in some remote location can run the risk of leaving kit behind, hidden in long grass or half buried under sand, not to mention the long drive back through the night. As I said, these are the concerns of the budding amateur who doesn't have a team of helpers and a generator with multiple flood lights. But it's our passion and commitment to photography that drive us on in search of that illusive capture. Happy days.