Low Light Portraiture: How to Make the Most of Ambient Lighting

"Shoot wide open." is probably a bit of advice that you've heard when shooting low light portraiture. The great news is that you don't need to use a flash to get a portrait that pops and that makes people stare--instead you can use a lot of the lighting that's just around us. We as human beings create a ton of lighting in various places at night, and with a bit of creative freedom and thinking, we can make lights work for us. Lots of photographers reach for prime lenses at night but in recent ye...