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Comment by beebee posted on Capturing dark skin at 08/12/2010 - 21:05
So natural light with a gold reflector to bounce some light back to warm up the image. Try -0.5 exposure compensation OR over-expose and shoot in RAW.
Hotshoe in slave mode (might need to read the manual) to light hair?
Try to talk them into a white background that might go a bit grey - lots to think about - thanks, I think!
Comment by beebee posted on Capturing dark skin at 08/12/2010 - 20:50
Comment by beebee posted on Capturing dark skin at 08/12/2010 - 20:14
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(sorry for the copy and paste - very new to all of this)
Beverley
Comment by beebee posted on Weekly competition 148 - catchlights at 04/05/2010 - 21:59
Comment by beebee posted on Pentax 50mm SMC-FA f1.4 w/box and manual at 31/03/2010 - 23:31
Meter carefully. watch for shiny highlights.
better to slightly over expose then pull back in post processing.
here you'll find a couple examples I did recently:
link
the best technique I know of for dark skin, involves polarizing your light source and a polarizer on your lens to have control over highlights, which probably is goin to far for your needs.
if you got lots of natural light, use it and a reflector, and maybe a little (set to manual powered right down low) flash for a catchlight in the eyes...
JR beat me! note : JR is correct for shooting jpegs, I shoot RAW and do post processing in Aperture and Photoshop...