i do a lot of skatephotograph y, which is very tough to light properly, so how should i solve this problem:
when shooting in the day (or evening), flashes are often used to light up certain areas of the skater. for dramatic and other reasons. the problem is that with a shutterspeed slower than like 1/500 second, certain parts of the skater become blurred (not always wanted). high speed sync doesn't give me enough output to overpower the sun (with an sb900). f/22 can't darken the scene enough to use the flash as only lightscource and go to 1/320 as shutterspeed. where i could use the full power of the flash. maybe i could achieve this by using extra flashes and an ND filter on the camera, but losing too much sunlight isn't aestheticly pleasing most of the time.
so how would you handle this situation? being able to overpower the sun in certain areas without having to blur the image or completely knock out the light from the sun.

so very infomative and helpful. Did you have the flash on a stand and how high was it in relationship to the couple. Thanks so much for all your great videos. Great way to learn.

thank you Greg. very good tutorial. Looking forward to seeing more on flash.

Are the trees directly behind the couple getting any flash? Also, I'm wondering if you have done post on the picture in terms od saturation....t hanks

Greg, I went through the process to get the presets but they never were sent to me. I checked my spam folder as well and nothing. How can I get them?

Thanks Greg :) Great video...
If it ever stops raining I'm going to try my glitter picture again-- with flash this time... I'm not letting a 3 year old throw glitter in my house :)