Capturing diverse skin tones
I’ve had the luxury of photographing quite a variety of people and their wonderful diverse skin tones. While working with subjects I pay attention to my exposure by watching the histogram in-camera. I don’t want to underexpose and lose detail in the shadows or overexpose and clip the highlights. The other part is watching my subjects outside of the camera, while I’m working with them, so I remember what they really looked like in different lighting. This is critical because modern RAW files have too much leeway it’s possible to produce an edit that doesn’t look like the subjects at all. The goal is always for my subjects to love how they are represented. When I’m capturing two very different tones together getting that contrast to pop while keeping it faithful can be tricky. Once I have a solid foundational edit I like to also deliver some wild alternate color treatments and black & whites.
