Lighting with Flash in the Shade

Caption: Visual Communications major Kait Mahl adds finishing touches to her Valentine's Day card for her boyfriend. Inside the card, Mahl listed facts about the human heart to correlate her feelings for him. ©2013, Abraham Falcon

I took this photo for my lighting class where we were to shoot a subject in the shade and use a hand-held flash to to make the subject's exposure one stop less than the background.