[ click on the photo to see a larger image] Apathy Angel against the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. The settings for the image above was 1/2000 @ f1.6 @ 100 ISO, and the reason for the wide aperture was that I wanted to have the skyline appear as that dreamlike haze in the background.  The bright light though, forced a very fast shutter speed.  In this case 1/2000th would let the background over-expose a little and blow out somewhat, but give me some detail.   But to control the lighting on my model more specifically than just the available light, I used flash. For the lighting  Read more inside...