“Warm up your eye and compositional brain using the sunlight properly, then convert to using your strobes to make a composition that you need for your concept or for drama. You must first understand the importance of balancing your subject and background brightness/contrast before you go blazing in with a photo flash!”
When working in broad sunlight with photo flash like this, you must continue to remember that your eye’s natural education is what all your photographic images will be judged upon. Meaning, you have to fake something that looks believable. In my last post on managing photo flash I talked about bending the strobe light to match the sunlight. In these pictures, I used a different approach in the bright mid-day Texas sun. Let’s take a look at some of my warm-up shots before I got to using flash…
