Today DR is bringing a story on sexual herassment on the website www.dr.dk. The funny thing is that the photo they bring is just like mine on the same topic I posted here March 7. The setup: hand slapping the woman’s behind must be universal 
See it here:
http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2008/04/26/200053.htm
When working outside in bright sunshine, I find it difficult not overexposing the sky. If I’m doing a portrait and measure on the person the sky almost always wash out completely. And that’s bad because a nice saturated blue sky is always ‘a hit’.
Yesterday I was on a job shooting a group portrait of three cabel workers. It was outside next to their company car. The sun was shining and I had the 24-70mm 2.8 zoom attached to my 5D. Pointing at the guys and the car the meter said something like 1/125 and f/3.2 at ISO 200. If I was to aviod the blue sky from washing out the measuring had to be something like 1/1000 and f/4. That meant two exposure values to far from each other. Neither one would do any good if I was to do it in one shot without flash.
Then I tried with flash. But it didn’t work out with the x-sync at only 1/200. Still to much light. I finally went for the high-speed setting on my 580EX. I remembered that with this setting any shutter speed can be used. A setting at 1/400 and f/6.3 with the flash at -3 produced the best result. I still miss some saturation in the sky, but going for a faster shutter speed would mean more flash and maybe reflexes in the mens faces and the car. Besides that, a nice blue sky is always done with a high shutter speed
The last photo clearly show that the sky is almost burned away due to the slow shutter speed – washed out.
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