I recently did a portrait session with Kiki in the Mission District in San Francisco. We arrived early, when the streets were uncrowded and we had a clear sky with angled light. I’d scouted some locations ahead of time, and chose mural backgrounds—ideally, without discernible letters, which could be distracting. There’s no shortage of murals of all kinds in the Mission. This was one of our first locations. I mostly used ambient light, but sometimes added light from a dialed-down flash, as I did here. I alternated between landscape and portrait format, depending on how much environment I wanted to show. Kiki brought different scarves; the yellow one reflects a warmer light onto her face. This square crop shows more