Quote Originally Posted by barmy101
Suppose you have no choice but to photograph an event scheduled at mid day and there is no shade. Other than choosing a lower contrast film, what would you do?
I would use black & white chromogenic film (Kodak T400CN or Ilford XP2).

1. A over-contrasty black-and-white image looks much better than a colour one. It looks like you've done it deliberately whereas colour bleaches out and is obviously awful
2. The chromogenic films soak up the contrast and with a good scanner and the middle histogram slider you can manipulate the tones and bring up the mid-tones so there's detail in there. In colour it looks awful but in black-and-white it looks believable.

If I was shooting colour I would definitely use fill-in. However I'm gradually going back to black-and-white for many events

Charles