I took an interesting portrait shot of an aboriginal Australian while I was in Blue Mountain, few hours drive from Sydney. He was playing the ‘didjeridu’, which is an instrument that the aboriginals invented.
Well, I wanted a portrait of him with his instrument but it was quite challenging to get a well exposed picture of him as he was facing his face away from the sun. As seen in the picture below, the skin tone of the subjects are a little underexposed although the overall picture seems well exposed.
So what I did was I’d to reposition myself to a different angle where I don’t get too much sunlight directly into my lens. To brighten up the face, I had my SB900 flash fired at 1/2 of the power from the right side of the frame by using a wireless trigger. I set my aperture to around F9 to control the exposure of the light on the subjects.
I know I have a dirty sensor. You can see an obvious dot on my picture. I have already clean it and it’s something that photographers should pay attention to. You wouldn’t want your clients to see dots on their face (:
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