If you're shooting light skinned people almost full frame, you'll get
an underexposure of close to a full stop. Just add a stop or half stop
of compensation. Figure that a deep tan skin will give you an accurate
exposure. Lighter skin requires more exposure to get accurate skin
tones and that eye detail. For those with extremely dark skin you might
have to subtract half a spot to avoid burned out highlights in eyes or
teeth.
Paul
On May 9, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Roman wrote:
My recent experience with *istDL shooting portraits and lenses from
EXIF spec. shows images are about 0.7EV underexposed. Shooting in RAW
it is easily corrected with UFraw but I wonder if lenses are to be
blamed. Should I perhaps use center-weighted metering instead of Spot
for these large objects like portraits. Oh, and eyes are always need
to be corrected to expose full magic in them.
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