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How to Expose and Light Group Portraits When Skin Tones Vary Widely
Group portraits are one of those assignments that look simple on paper until you’re actually standing there with three people in front of your lens, each with a completely different skin tone, and your camera is doing something odd with the exposure. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit. Even after years of shooting weddings and transitioning into beauty work, mixed-skin-tone group shots still require deliberate thinking at every stage, from how you set your light to how you read your meter.