Group Portraits with Various Skin Tones

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Is it the lighting or metering? yes and no. Making group portraits with various skin tones does not need to be overly complicated.
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@frankc3834 Жыл бұрын

Would love a video on setting a profile. Especially from a good teacher!

@ivantheterrible2796 Жыл бұрын

I second this!

@alangrate5718 Жыл бұрын

I would also like a video on making a flat profile.

@BrasicOne Жыл бұрын

Thanks Daniel another great explanation and thanks for sharing yet more of your skills and knowledge with us.

@250GTOAJ Жыл бұрын

An incident/flash meter would be helpful in this situation too! Thanks Daniel and have a good weekend! 😎👍🇨🇦

@frankiecalabro2617 Жыл бұрын

Love ya Daniel!!!!!!!!! You’re the greatest!!!!!

@kirkdarling4120 Жыл бұрын

I'm a black guy who has been shooting 50 years, and you've been shooting nearly as long I think. Remember Kodachrome II? That was a very contrasty film, yet we saw gloriously beautiful bright-sun Kodachrome work of dark-skins and bright surfaces in National Geographic. Lots of photographers were able to correctly expose with detail in wedding shots of dark tuxedos and white lace wedding gowns. Yes, it was a matter of flattening the contrast of the light. I also tried to move darker subjects closer to the light source. In my Canon cameras, I've used the Canon Picture Profile Editor to load a custom profile with a flatter tonal curve into the camera (like using a film with a flatter tonal curve).

@2007rSix Жыл бұрын

Custom profile w a flatter tonal curve.. I’m gonna give this a try.. thank you!

@texaspardners Жыл бұрын

Thanks (as always) for the explanation. This was the situation I had in Vegas, on the street, at night in 2019. Random couple asked for a photo. The photos were so terrible, I've avoided this since then. Now I can 'experiment' and not feel bad as at least I have a formula I understand.

@MikeJamesMedia Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Daniel. Solid advice, as always. :)

@ssgh100 Жыл бұрын

This weekend I shot a wedding with the problem discussed in this clip. A bridegroom in a black suit with a darker skin tone and a pale bride in white. I shot it as flat I could and with some tweaks in CaptureOne I got a descent result. 😅

@mattorrz759 Жыл бұрын

I have often seen photographers on KZfaq bring an image into Lightroom and pull the contrast slider right down then work on the image from there. Interesting approach to editing but they generally come up with a good looking result.

@ashwanibhola3766 Жыл бұрын

If my understanding is correct, then don't camera picture profiles (standard, neutral etc) only apply to the JPEG and not the RAW image? Was your suggestion perhaps intended towards when you preview the image on the camera screen, which is typically the jpeg with the profile applied? Or does the profile in some way influence how the metering is interpreted?

@btownjpl Жыл бұрын

If you were photographing multiple subjects, some with pale Caucasian skin, and some with dark African-American skin, would the optimal lighting strategy be to evenly light the group, or to add more light to the African American subjects, either by feathering the light towards them (if using 1 light) or by using 2 lights, with more illumination on them?

@JohanSchmidt Жыл бұрын

Daniel, when you say a flat profile, do you mean shooting in RAW or using a Picture Control (Nikon) like "Flat" or "Portrait"? What about skin colours when some people are very pink / red and others are yellow (makeup)?

@RobertFGardner Жыл бұрын

I have the same question. I figured shooting camera RAW already did that for us🤔