Sean, I mean this with all the respect due to you, my mentor of the off camera flash. I like the composition of the shot. I like the lighting, in terms of proportion. I think what madison might be referring to relates to the character of the lighting. I think there's enough shading for depth, but the color rendition seems to suffer due to the difference in the light, qualitatively, between the sunlight and the flash. All of the grass and environment surrounding the subject is primarily light by sunlight, and has a sense of warm richness. The subject, which is lit primarily by the flash, seems pale and grey in comparison. From my limited experience, I think you did everything right, and I don't know what you could have done differently. I don't know if you can set white balance selectively in Photoshop or anything. That'd be a neat trick. A reflector would conceivably provide a more consistent white balance, though as you pointed out, it might also blind the subject.


I wish I had something constructive to offer. I think there's a lot of good stuff in the shot, and I would have beenproud if Itook it. But I also think Madison is seeing something that's at least worth thinking about.