Re:Shirley Cards
by PaulHoule on Monday November 15, 2021 @10:04AM
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If you tune up your camera to "see what is there" people complain that their blemishes are too visible.
So generally the processing chain is tuned up to be more flattering.
I took a photo of my son who had acne at the time and did the opposite and made it look like he'd smoked 10,000 cigarettes. He and I thought it was a good photo artistically but I wouldn't show it to his grandmother.
What's flattering is going to depend on your skin type. People with very light skin have bad problems in this respect.
Auto-exposure is also an issue. It assumes the scene is middle gray and if the objects in the scene are unusually light or dark it will get it wrong.
I took a photo of a friend who was wearing a black gothic dress and the +2 ... -2 exposure dial was not enough to get her face right and make the dress really black and I had to go to full manual.
Now that I think about it, I haven't taken a lot of portraits of black people and I think I want to take some to learn how.
So generally the processing chain is tuned up to be more flattering.
I took a photo of my son who had acne at the time and did the opposite and made it look like he'd smoked 10,000 cigarettes. He and I thought it was a good photo artistically but I wouldn't show it to his grandmother.
What's flattering is going to depend on your skin type. People with very light skin have bad problems in this respect.
Auto-exposure is also an issue. It assumes the scene is middle gray and if the objects in the scene are unusually light or dark it will get it wrong.
I took a photo of a friend who was wearing a black gothic dress and the +2 ... -2 exposure dial was not enough to get her face right and make the dress really black and I had to go to full manual.
Now that I think about it, I haven't taken a lot of portraits of black people and I think I want to take some to learn how.