The Trick to Keep from Lighting the Ground

When you’re shooting a subject in sunlight, or in low light with flash, you want to light your subject, but you don’t generally want to light the ground they’re standing on (after all, the ground isn’t the subject). It’s often a bit cumbersome, though, to try to coax the light to only fall on your subject and then stop right there and not light the ground. That’s why this tip, which I learned from David Hobby, rocks (it’s ½ camera trick and ½ Photoshop trick). Here’s how it works: When you take your shot, take two real quick shots in a row (you can use burst mode, if you like). On the first shot, your flash will fire, but it won’t have time to recycle for the second shot, so the second shot is taken with just the available light at the sce....Note: