shooting against bright window

Hi,

I saw this pic in flickr and many other pics against very bright window.
http://www.flickr.com …340446424/in/ph​otostream/

I was wondering how they shoot this kind of pic? do they use flash to get washed out window or what?

Thanks

You can use fill flash to get this look. Depending on circumstances if you expose for the skin say on the side of her face the window will be shown of blown highlights as a result. This is where shooting in manual is valuable. You cannot expect your camera's meter to get this right on its own.

Thanks.

HDR.....

Well, it could have been simply exposed for the subject, since to me it seems like the window area is completely blown out. But the conventional way to get the subject exposed and some of the background to come through is with a bit of fill flash.