IT is a normal practice with every unexperienced photographer , how to expose people, particularly with dark skin tones and light skin tones. naturally when u meter towards these subjects, the fluctuations will occur in your camera or external meter.......meter is light sensitive and as u wud expect, the lighter subject reflect light and the dark one absorbs it............suppose u set the meter correctly taking the meter reading from your palm, which is of normal tone. ....now move your lens towards a almost white skin tone of a girl, such as 'Kashmiri girl'..........u will see that your meter goes up showing overexposure......now turn the lens towards a dark complexioned girl,..........ur meter will go down, showing under exposure...........then how to take correct exposed skin texture of both the girls.............very natural, if u have read some lessons of photography...........underexpose by half to one stop for the white skinned girl and overexpose in the same way for the dark complexioned girl to get the correctly exposed photograph............yes, in general group give the exposure demanded by the camera's exposure meter where different complexioned people are there(in shadow).
seeing the different coloured people, group, may be students or general people in shadow, i bring down my camera's exposure towards a little bit darkerened road, or go close to the person of middle range skin tones take reading and and then shoot.
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