Advice on photographing black folks?
I have a christmas party coming up with the guest list mostly being black folks. I would appreciate any tips for balancing the dark skin with white attire. I've shot several black families, but most were in darker clothing and in natural light. I'll be using my studio strobes of course with hotshoe flashes as a hairlight.
The meter will try to make it 18% gray, so you want to make it darker than that. Take a spot meter reading on the skin and underexpose by 1 or 2 stops. It depends on how dark the complexion is, so you will need to do a few test shots.
You might need to pull the strobes back a stop or more, also, but I'm not a lighting expert.
Don't do it like this:
I think that is about a stop overexposed; maybe half a stop.
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