>For my tastes I find metering off the face alone (caucasian) produces a
>degree of
>underexposure. I try to take a spot reading off the subjects hair as well,
>especially the shadow area around the ears. So I usually take one spot
>reading of
>the face and one of the hair, or sometimes just one of the hair.
>
>Alternatively, I sometimes spot meter the face and the clothes, so long as
>they are
>darker than the face.
>
Caucasian skin is about twice as reflective as a grey chart, hence the
underexposure by 1 f-stop.
Gérard
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