Skin tones (_DSC1531)
Taken with a Nikon D50 and AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens
RAW won't create noise. If anything it should minimize it since there is very little in the way of in-camera processing which itself in a large way often contributes to noise. However you still have to set your ISO and exposure values correctly even if you are using RAW. If you don't you'll end up shooting underexposed often and this will create a RAW image file that when processed in any RAW image processor result in increased noise, particularly in the shadow areas when you try to bring out the shadow detail.
Skin tones are what most meters are set up to consider an 'average tone', they are also usually the part of the picture that we most want to get right.
If I am photographing a group of people in difficult circumstances, like bright sunlight for instance, I will often move close in to the group and take a light reading from someone's face or, if we are all standing in the same type of light, I will take a reading from the back of my hand.
This is no good, of course, if the subject is in bright sunlight and I am in the shade. Brown parcel paper is also an extraordinarily accurate surface to take a light reading from.
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Kuala Terengganu
21080 Kuala Terengganu
Terengganu, Malaysia
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Labels: AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G, Chendering Fisheries Complex, Nikon D50, People, Photography, Portrait
