A natural lighting question

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When working with a light source which is coming from behind the subject, namely a window, how do you work with it?

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Picture a wedding and you get to the speeches, the top table is located infront of the only natural light source in the room. The lighting is coming from BEHIND the subject. You have the conflict of diffused cold light coming through the window and the only fill you get is from the nasty tungsten lighting in the room. Do you use Flash and get some horrid colour casts whilst contrasting between natural light, tungsten light and your flash or do you work around it somehow?
 
Expose for the subject, accept some blown areas and move to the sides where possible. It's very common.

Black and White is your friend here :)
 
As Guy. You can usually get decent skin tones from tungsten light if you need to as well. Blow out the background and there's no colour cast problems there, even if it doesn't blow out then whatever colour the window is behind them, does it matter?

No reason why you'd get horrid colour casts from using flash either. Chances are it's going to wipe out any colour from the tungsten lights. And there are always gels if you want.
 
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