How'd you shoot under this: Strong side lighting!

[Fellipe de Paula]

Pretend you are shooting outdoor with the sun almost down hitting the people's face you are trying to shoot from the side creating a very strong shadow at the other side of the face.
You cannot use a reflector. It's a bride walking to the aisle, actually.

The questions:
1) How do you meter the above situation?
2) What would you do?

Thanks

[Deckham]

Given your situation, I would say - it would be better to have a half-face in darkness, then a half-face overexposed. But then again - I don't know if either of those options are good ones, and i would try and think something else up with regards to PoV. Hard to say without actually being there.

Just remember - brides want to see their wedding dresses.

[alduin]

What about some off-camera flash for fill? You may need to set it up to point at a specific spot in the aisle before-hand, but depending on distance, it could work.

[cdifoto]

I'd violate my "JPEG Always" policy.

[AB8ND]

I'd try to go with cross lighting using a strobe 180 degrees to the sun. Problem is if the bride is walking you will need someone to carry and aim the strobe, you need to shoot at a high shutter speed and I don't think ETTL will work against the sun, I've only done this with pocket wizards shooting manual flash. You want to meter the sunny side, get a good exposure, then move the flash in to fill the shadow side to what ever looks good. You will need to shoot at you max sync speed (probably 1/250th) to get the exposure correct, yes I know Canon Flashes will shoot high speed sync, but only in ETTL mode.

Jack

[BasherXt]

can you get on the shadow side and shoot with fill flash?