I'm middle east asian and here different skin tone of people and I realised it and difficult in dark skin in low light without extra equipment, hard to get juicy skin tone from yellow greenish skin tone with zero red or false purple-red type of tone !! can not correct even with HSL because red does have also have various colour in it !!
I’d go for the sunny 16 rule, but it depends on what you’re looking for. Typically I’ll do ISO 200, f/2.8 and then do shutter speed based on ambient light.
@@HeatherMcKay Smh. It's not just that, and the fact that you find that comment funny says a lot about you as photographer and as a person. Do you not know about the history of cameras and the Shirley card? The way cameras are made is indeed racist, they're calibrated to light skin: their colour tones, their undertones, the way they reflect light (diffuse vs specular reflectivity). You're doing your dark skinned clients a disservice by pretending it's just a question of exposure and laughing off any other factor. Learn how to properly photograph black people please, and try to be a better human too.
@@lsamoa actually, Shirley cards (or Nora as we called them in my photo lab days) refers to printing in the lab. The camera meter is using the grey scale (zone system basically). The camera meter has been around longer than Kodak used those Shirley cards, which began in the ‘50s. What I’m talking about here in this video is how to properly use the camera meter. Of course, spot metering and group metering would change the outcome as well. Going for accurate skin tones as the goal, not a “standard”. That’s the point. On top of ignoring the background, like photographing into a window or in a dark nightclub, which would also change the default settings the camera meter would give a photographer. So, adjustment is necessary. My laughing at the comment was because inanimate objects aren’t racist, people are. Thank you for your comment. I’ll be more considerate.
@@HeatherMcKay Your response completely ignores the fact that skin rendition isn't just down to metering, but most of all to sensor colour calibration - and that calibration has inherited all the bias of the Shirley card. As long as camera manufacturers calibrate colours in their sensors to light skin and ignore dark ones, you as a photographer will have a lot more to do to get your black clients to look normal than just adjust metering. Smh.
Thank you for addressing this topic because it comes up quite often in the field and folks need to know how to be flexible for skin tones.
Appreciate this photo..thanks for taking us back to basics!
Many thanks Heather. Super cool advice.
I'm middle east asian and here different skin tone of people and I realised it and difficult in dark skin in low light without extra equipment, hard to get juicy skin tone from yellow greenish skin tone with zero red or false purple-red type of tone !! can not correct even with HSL because red does have also have various colour in it !!
What about bride’s white wedding dress & groom’s dark suit. Stagger the subjects to vary the exposure? Reflectors and flags?
Hi, for an interracial couple wedding outdoor in sunny day. What setting will be best? thank you
I’d go for the sunny 16 rule, but it depends on what you’re looking for. Typically I’ll do ISO 200, f/2.8 and then do shutter speed based on ambient light.
This was very good, I would like to see more tutorials
Thanks, Cheri! I’m working on a new series of photography tutorials right now. Let me know if you have anything in particular that you struggle with.
Good tip and you look like Melissa McBride
Good video
Great explanation!
Cathy Fraser so glad it was clear. Seems simple, but throws people off.
Thank you!
Cameras are racist😭😭
🤣 they just want everything to be a boring grey. The -/+ is my fave tool to overcome this.
@@HeatherMcKay Smh. It's not just that, and the fact that you find that comment funny says a lot about you as photographer and as a person. Do you not know about the history of cameras and the Shirley card? The way cameras are made is indeed racist, they're calibrated to light skin: their colour tones, their undertones, the way they reflect light (diffuse vs specular reflectivity). You're doing your dark skinned clients a disservice by pretending it's just a question of exposure and laughing off any other factor. Learn how to properly photograph black people please, and try to be a better human too.
@@lsamoa actually, Shirley cards (or Nora as we called them in my photo lab days) refers to printing in the lab. The camera meter is using the grey scale (zone system basically). The camera meter has been around longer than Kodak used those Shirley cards, which began in the ‘50s.
What I’m talking about here in this video is how to properly use the camera meter. Of course, spot metering and group metering would change the outcome as well. Going for accurate skin tones as the goal, not a “standard”. That’s the point. On top of ignoring the background, like photographing into a window or in a dark nightclub, which would also change the default settings the camera meter would give a photographer. So, adjustment is necessary.
My laughing at the comment was because inanimate objects aren’t racist, people are. Thank you for your comment. I’ll be more considerate.
@@HeatherMcKay Your response completely ignores the fact that skin rendition isn't just down to metering, but most of all to sensor colour calibration - and that calibration has inherited all the bias of the Shirley card. As long as camera manufacturers calibrate colours in their sensors to light skin and ignore dark ones, you as a photographer will have a lot more to do to get your black clients to look normal than just adjust metering. Smh.