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Here's what I'd try in that lighting situation: Take two shots with different exposures. In the first one, spot meter on the face. In the second, do an overall average metering of the whole scene. That way you can avoid using the flash.
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What I meant to say is that you can't get it all done in one exposure. The following is a spot meter on the face and a full scene exposure. The spot metered shot doesn't look so hot without any light coming across the face to define the form. She's basically looking directly away from the light and looks pretty washed out. I reached my level of incompetence on that idea.
And then there was this ... I looked up and saw this guy almost chest deep with his handle bars sticking out of the water walking directly toward the shore. My mind blinked a few times thinking what is wrong with this picture. By the time I got my camera up he looked like this. I never found out if he was half boy, half fish (like Kevin Costner). You see some strange things at the waters edge.