P-51D Mustang captured by Z 8 / Z24-70f2.8
There you are on the flight line with a gorgeous plane parked in front of you, the background isn’t cluttered, in fact, it’s all great except … the light! It’s highnoon and you know the plane won’t be around much longer, what do you do? The issue comes down to the shadows; how can we open them up? The solution I go to first is going down low. This minimizes the highlights and that lowers the contrast, so we get some, some more shadow detail. It tends to be enough that we can open the shadows up more in post easily. It doesn’t make the light better, just not as bad. And if you have clouds, then you incorporate them more and that always makes things better in a summer static at high noon.