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You can then easily lift detail out of the shadows in Lightroom, aperture etc. (caution: you must retain some flashing highlights or risk burying your shadow detail and generating noise when you attempt to recover this detail - do a duckduckgo search (non creepy google alternative) for 'shooting to the right' for more detailed explanations
Instead of shooting Raw try making sure that d-lighting is on and experiment with varying the ISO until you control the highlights effectively
Base your exposure on the sunny 16 rule to get a starting point
Sunny 16 indicates correct exposure as f16, 1250ISO, 1/1250
You have adjusted your aperture by six clicks to f8 and to get those highlights back you must increase shutter speed or reduce ISO resulting in something like;
f8, 1250ISO, 1/5000
OR
f8, 320ISO, 1/1250
OR
F8, 640ISO, 1/2500
(I haven't attempted to check the metadata, but I suspect your shot above is at a shutter speed far l owner than 1/5000 resulting in the extensive highlight clipping in the image)
Using any of these three variations on 'sunny 16' the highlights should be close to holding detail and d-lighting should lift those shadows to give more of a fill effect
I would look to avoid flashing highlights on the face where it is exposed to the sun, but permit it to occur on the cap, arms, background etc.
Btw I'm not sure fill flash would help
With this subject distance fill flash would force a low shutter speed, changing the image dynamics somewhat (high speed flash sync will let you keep your shutter speed, but would require your flash to be within a cople of meters of your subject (and that's with an external sbxxx flash. - the built in flash would be useless))
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