I have been a firm believer that if you have the right lighting conditions and the right vision, you can take portraits almost anyplace.  As I sat in the shade of a tree on the edge of a dirt parking lot waiting for my client who didn't know that her supposed one hour appt at the yearbook studio was going to take at least two hours,  As I muddled around, I noticed this patch of weeds behind where my car was parked.  I took it as a challenge to see if I could do anything with it when the client arrived.

I'm sure the client thought I had lost my mind when I had her stand in a lane between the clumb of weeds in front of her and behind her but the result is posted here.

 

Of course, if you go closer it totally makes the weedy background disappear.

It was bright and sunny, the sun was blazing behind her but there was enough open sky area behind me to illuminate the face well.  Of course I used a 70-200 zoom, a lens shade and what's we called a French Flag (which is a scrim that I attached to the lens to block the sun from hitting the lens).