One of the ways to deal with a harsh, overhead sun is to shoot downward on subjects . In this way, you are using front lighting as opposed to overhead lighting. Overhead light makes harsh shadows, and the shadows themselves are often unattractive on the subject. With front light, most or all of what would be shadows are filled in with light. This caiman in Brazil is an example. I shot this during my Pantanal trip in Brazil, my photo tour group and I stood on a bridge over a small river. We were able to shoot down on the top of the repitle. There are still shadows in this picture, but they are minimal and none of them are distracting. My settings for this shot were 1/1000, f/11, 640 ISO, and I used a 500mm f/4 Canon telephoto with a 1.4x teleconverter giving me 700mm of focal length. The camera I used was the 5D Mark III.
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