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Mandrake said
Re above post….
Hmmmmm, you replied to my post by editing my post?
Not sure that’s a good idea as it is easily missed because it does not show up as a new unread posting.
Also replying to posts in this way can confuse readers as to who added the additional comments.

I did. I must have by accident pressed Edit instead of Quote. Sorry Mandrake. 

Achnori, I posted the picture for you. The reason why it wasn’t posting is because you didn’t resized it. It has to be not bigger then 1200×1200 pixel. Please watch the Lesson 19.1 and Lesson 19.2 on how you can resize your pictures. 

As you can see, when you shoot under direct sun light in the middle of the day, you will have a huge difference between shadows (dark parts) and highlights (light parts). This photo is exposure more for highlight – like sky, and all the part of the image which got direct sunlight on them. This is why shadows (all the things which are in the shade are very dark. If you would expose for shadows, then highlight will be too light. 

The solution to that could be post processing. You should shoot your image in Raw instead of Jpeg. This way you will have more information in highlight and shadows and it will be easier to brighten up the shadows or darken the highlight in Adobe Lightroom or Camera Raw. 

I am talking about that at the end of Lesson 14.

achnuri said
Hi Oksana , Thank you for your answer i am have opinion what if i am use flash strong light when i am shoot on middle of the day (sunny) is that will have to reduce the light shadow on that picture .What you recognise ?i am waiting your prompt reply ,Thank you 

Yes, flash could help to fill up the shadows. I have a video about using flash – Lesson 26. You could also use reflector (but you might not have it handy all the time and you need an assistant or stand to hold it). You could also make subject to face the sun, but in this case you might not get desired background and also people tend to squint their eye, which is not attractive in most cases. It doesn’t matter so if you have sun glasses on. 

I personally usually tend to avoid having photo shoots during midday (with clients I mean). And if I have no choice I look for a shade with more even light. I also prefer to shoot backlit using reflector to kick the light back on the persons face. Post-processing also helps. If you should raw, you can darken the highlights and brighten up the shadows.