An alternative: go under a shade, obviously. Or have your subject turn their back against the sun if possible and blast away with the flash.

Mark has several videos in which he does what you're suggesting. This is just another way to take pictures in this kind of horrible light.

A flash is not that expensive.

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Very true, my set up loses 3 stops in flash power just going from 1/250 to 1/320. Very annoying!

Thank you! Came seeking for anyone who saw that those aren't at all good photos. Syntethic look, face with absolutely no deph, weird shapes from that blocker shaddows, disconnection with the background, too cold colors. Just use a reflector for god's sake.

errr its always been about creating an image go look at Ansel Adams work for proof

Not if he wanted full control of the background exposure and the exposure on her separately, with the background he wanted.

If you need a visa is dependent on the official relationships between your passport country and destination. A citizen of almost all the northern Hemisphere countries and enter visa-free for up to 90 days to Columbia. Cuba is as little more complicated depending on your passport country. If American you need s Pink Tourist card if you fly direct from the US or a Green Tourist card if flying from another country. You can be hassled when returning to the US if by direct flight from Cuba. It is better to fly from one of the Caribbean Islands to avoid delays and interrogations entering directly from Cuba. Most other countries of citizenship of Europe and North America use the Green Tourist card which is less expensive. You need to show financial responsibility of $50 per day in the country and medical insurance and return flight. Tourist medical insurance is usualy low cost just covering for the days you stay from a travel agent. The restrictions are minor considering it has been sanctioned by the US for 60 years. It is well worth the trip. Personal photography does not require permits but some locations might, for example, private property or inside a building like a museum. Some museums require camera permits or a camera ticket but almost no museum or gallery will allow flash because it can fade tapestries and painting pigment. That is a very old policy but with high ISO cameras, any augmented light from, say, a LED light panel would be pretty safe. In the flash bulb era they were banned because bulbs exploded occasionally which could damage artifacts or injure other visitors. You will probably be restricted from shooting around government-designated security zones but they are usually sign posted but if in doubt around government buildings, ask. Cuba is a wonderful photo destination. I have been there several times and love it, and the people so warm and inviting, eager to show off their country. Columbia in times past when it was a major drug center, taking photos of strangers could be dangerous but that is in the past, and a wonderful safe tourist and photo destination. I have been in 92 countries and the only time hassled by police was in one of my rare visits back to my native USA, when I first went for a walk after picking up my new D800 Nikon when it was first released. I walked to a park that has a skateboard park and shot some teens getting air testing the AF. After 30 frames or so I wandered off to shoot some flowers and hear sirens and looked around and saw 2 police cars skidding to a stop and 4 police came running 200 feet, 2 with guns drawn, screaming at me to lay face down, one kicked my camera out of my hands and another held my other hand down with his boot. I waken to the nearest car to be interrogated. My crime, a parent called the police to say a middle-aged man was taking photos of "children". After an hour of checking ID verifications and the FBI database they let me go telling me not to go to the park, I had walked from a home I own, in the same neighborhood 400 feet away. I do not live there since I moved out of the US 22 years ago but my sister lives there. Needless so say I left the country soon after. Never hassled. But they did confiscate the CF card, the only one I had so only had a replacement when arriving back to my adopted home country. It is a quiet area north of Sacramento California. Ask for passport control in any country you visit. Considering how many countries are on all continents and never a problem before or since. Ask before going to countries before you go, some do not allow shooting strangers. Someone reminded me of that in India before I took photos of the colorful clothing. Sites but not people but people

There was a giant glass skylight preventing me from getting closer. It's down there by my feet.

a kicker light would do the trick. Shooting at a more flattering time of day is even better. But if you have to shoot in the worst part of the day this technique will improve the shots a lot.

You could use wide aperture to blur background more, or as they demonstrated, set the ambient exposure to darken the background and use the flash to expose the model. In the video, his flash wasn't powerful enough to expose the model using High Speed Sync, so you'd need a more powerful flash or get your shutter speed into sync range of the flash and maybe use a ND filter to darken the ambient light.

Because it is the same, just rebranded.

I know, I was thinking the same! Also, why complicate your life with a flash when you have a reflector with a diffuser? 🤦‍♂️

It's a kit lens. 5.6 is wide open when zoomed in.

@@MarkWallaceVideos also a lot high end, old school photographers shoot f11 and they shoot 7.1 when feeling a little bokeh

That's enough toneh

@@MarkWallaceVideos lol i know, it’s just “wide open” makes me think 2.8 at least yk?

You have a lot more control with a flash you put on your hot shoe

Yes it is. The one that came on your camera is really called the built-in flash.

zoomed in its wide open at f/5.6. In bright sunlight, you always use a low ISO. Check out these videos: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/na-Bo85p3a7bmn0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLOUp6aI2dGZXas.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbiSl7edztTDe6s.html

Because lower ISO was not available. The lower the amplification of the sensor signal the wider the dynamic range and lower noise. You can loose 1/2 your dynamic range with a change of ISO from 100 to 3200 si where light is bright with dark shadows to be able to record as much of that difference in light you need to be at a low ISO. Shooting higher ISO means blown out areas with lost detail is unrecoverable. That is why Flash or strobes when properly used, benefit your images more than any other factor in the session...lens, camera model, resolution, etc. I am often challenged by photographers seeing me with with a model and dragging out strobes or using flash on a sunny or cloudy day or as the sun lowers. Control of light is your ace in the hole, and is the great levelers between cameras. The specs and cost of a camera has almost no bearing on the quality of the results. So it is a bit bizarre to see that people are so wowed by new cameras and invest far more on bodies than their lighting and modifiers. Strobes are getting cheap, and modifiers are cheap, buy them and learn to use them before investing in new cameras. Cameras depreciate quickly but a $100 flash is will be in your kit years after replacing the camera. Good effective flash are aviable for $50 new! Strobes start at $250. A cheap folding scrim or reflect for $40 will improve output more than moving to a better camera at $5000. There are a lot of people buying flash defusers but usually they have limited benefit. since the lightsource relative size to the subject is still very small from the camera to subject distance but getting the same flash off camera closer to the the subject shooting through a scrim can create soft flattering light. So if you buy flash, you will have more options if it has RF wireless controller built in for off camera use and control.

lightroom ;p

The smaller the light source is the more those highlights may pop up. Using a light modifier/diffuser (softbox, umbrella etc) can significantly lessen or eliminate instances where those specular highlights may occur.

Trust me, it doesn't look good. And if you have no assistant to do that then don't use this technique. You'll have to try to find open shade or somewhere with generally decent light. Or backlight her and fill in with flash if your background is desirable.

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because then the desired background would not be in the photo.

Anyway is far better than direct sunlight with racoon eyes

@@isoldo1 or just position your subject better and use the natural sunlight to your advantage

@@BlakeCastle in some cases you cant change position because the background very beautiful and customer really want take a photo with this background

I don't see why you would say that when the flash barely has enough power to have an effect on the exposure. It seems natural to me with the flash being barely noticeable.

You can use a stand on a tripod

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that is unfortunate

That is the point of an "intentional" photo where you have a goal and make it happen. Anything else is luck or a snapshot. Having an idea of what you want before you set up or select the location is one reason why you can get the results you plan for as opposed to grab shots like snapshots. A tripod, light stand, friend with long arms, or ?? would work if you are shooting with intentian.

That's a matter of personal taste. Everything looks fine to me, genius.

put that's what most professional models look like

I hope that 'good enough' is not your goal. This video does well to show what's possible with an on camera flash and a kit lens. Yes. You can get good photos. Off camera flash and modifiers will get you even better photos if you know how to use them.