When you are working with bright sun, you must make sure you have the flare controlled and the light strong enough to fill the shadow side. Getting the light in close is a challenge that we all face, and I have a few ways of working with my speedlights. On this shoot, my assistant hadn’t shown up yet and the sun was going down. I put a speedlight on the top of a stand with a clamp and two bungee cords. I attached a wireless remote and tested it. It fired so we headed down toward the water. I brought a second one and we started shooting. Here are the contact sheets we looked at in the movie above.

I placed a strobe on both sides of the camera at about 3 feet on each side. I set them on 1/8 power and did my tests. The back part of the scene looked good at f-22 at 1/100. So I wanted the main light to be f22 at 1/200. That would give me the look that I wanted. The f-stop was controlled by the flash, and by increasing the shutter speed by one stop, I was able to darken the sky around the sun. (Praise to my 20-35mm 2.8L… what a smooth flare)

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