My 2 here....... That harsh contrasty light makes photographing things almost impossible sometimes. You end up with blown out highlights and shadows with no detail, certainly makes for images that are not optimal. David did a wonderful job on the postwork, yet I understand your desire for the best in camera image you can get... (my kinda girl!) My suggestion would be fill flash, normally I hate flash, I mean really, really hate it (for reasons I'll not go into)..... yet it can be a good thing in certain circumstance.... or a reflector on the side with the deep shadows. Now in this situation though I am not sure how well either of these would work for the simple fact that the distance of subject to flash is so great, and you have a moving subject. This is a really tough situation to work in..... would love to hear other in-camera fixes for this too.

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