Thanks all, my reply to you all....
Thanks Gordon, Kevin, Dan. I think were going to do a reshoot, since these were taken right off the end of my pier :wink: Gizzy here, is my lake cottage neighbor's son, so reshooting is a piece of cake, since we worked off the end of my own pier :wink: I obviously had to get in the water, always keep my camera rig (with an RRS Perfect Portrait Pkg + SB800 mounted), raised in my right hand when not shooting, and fight the incoming waves from Fri evening's boat traffic, but that was about the only difficult part of this shoot. The water temp's 84 deg :wink: The most difficult part of the shoot is knowing so little about posing, esp someone with a wakeboard.
Kevin, You're right about the board being such a distraction. We gotta figure out how to include it in the shot without it competed for the center of interest (COI).
Dan, in fact he was almost completely perpendicular to the sun's position, and were shot at 6:45 local time. However, we had just came outside from being indoors, and started shooting immediately, and his eyes might not have been adjusted to the brightness yet. Also, my son was just off camera pointing a gold reflector into his face. I'm sure that didn't help, since he mentioned the glare from it bothered him. Maybe he wasn't directing the reflector properly? Orienting him with his back more to the sun is going to be a problem, since there are so many distractive elements all around us, such as everything on the neighbor's pier, etc.