Video Tutorials
How to Light and Separate Brown Skin Tones Without Losing Warmth
There’s a specific kind of frustration that comes from reviewing a shoot and realizing the lighting that looked gorgeous on a lighter-skinned subject is completely washing out your subject’s jaw line, or worse, creating highlights so cool they look almost gray against warm brown skin. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit, usually late at night with a client’s gallery due the next morning. When I stumbled across this CreativeLive tutorial on photographing brown skin tones, I recognized immediately that the photographer was solving a problem I’d been fumbling through on my own for years.