Misha - Photoshoot on USF campus
Continuing on the subject of portrait photography… A friend of mine, (who shoots Canon, nevertheless we get along quite well :-) recently mentioned how he just doesn’t have any pictures of him. I’m sure many other photographers can relate :-) Yesterday we met a couple hours before the sunset on USF campus and had a little fun… Click on the image below to see the entire gallery.
Equipment used: Nikon D300, SB-800 (on camera), Tamron 17-50 f/2.8, Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 VR. Processed in Nikon Capture NX 1.3
September 16th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Love this angle!!
How do you usually meter exposure? By skin tones? or lightest spot?
September 16th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
yeah, this is my favorite too :-)
If I’m shooting a closeup, I’d meter off the face, e.g. by skin tones. If it’s a full body shot, I just go by the built in matrix metering, which has been great on D300 so far. I never meter for highlights, D70 used to do that and it was a major headache for me. I never strive to preserve highlights, in fact I blow then all the time, as long as they are not my main subject… I’d blow a shirt on somebody, I’d blow the sky, anything light in the background - I’d sacrifice it for properly exposed skin tones in a heart bit :)