Fun in the strobist snow

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Originally uploaded by nexcar

Yep, this picture of me and my son isn't strobist inspired. But it should be. The sky is overexposed, but at least me the little guy look perfectly exposed (lighting-wise and temperature-wise [keep it PG people!])
Anyways this set has me wondering, how do I compensate for the background to control more of the light coming from it and then match and manipulate my flash and camera to produce a better shot? Kinda rhetorical question right now because I'm still in the "gear" phase of shooting instead of the shooting phase of photog.

Early in the day with Drew and Lola, it was good. But I think the shadows kinda distracted from the snowscape which is what I was trying to get.


Then just after sunset, I tried to make use of the "golden hour", but it look way later than it really was. The picture of Joshua and I was taken much later in the day than the next pix.