I, too, have had shoots rescheduled far too often because of weather. (And here in Seattle there are more cloudy days than most people can stand!) My solution has been to shoot the subjects "under cover" when it's an overcast day. Shooting indoors near a window or outdoors under a porch or tree blocks the unflattering "down" light you get from an open overcast sky. There is still plenty of bright light and no unflattering sharp shadows that you get when a subject is out in the bright sun.
Then, with that miraculous tool, Photoshop, I increase the contrast and warm up and saturate the colors a bit and voila! ...a bright day. I try to keep the shadow areas somewhat cool when I get to the painting stage.
It still doesn't have the look of a subject out in the full sun and I can't get that lovely halo look of a backlighted head of hair in the low sunlight that I like so much, but it's still pretty good. And no more rescheduled outdoor shoots...unless it's actually raining, which of course NEVER happens here in Seattle!
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