[OM] Foreground/background exposure, was: Olympus 50mm f1.2 or 55mm f1.2 lenses bokeh?

[Chuck Norcutt]

IMHO you've improved the girl but I think you'd have had a better 
overall image by leaving the background brightness alone.  Seeing the 
girl standout more brightly than an obviously brightly sunlit background 
gives an artificial appearance.

I learned this lesson the hard way a number of years ago when taking 
some formal family group photos.  It was the height of fall color and 
the family chose a spot in a shaded area at the edge of a lake where the 
trees at the far side of the lake were in brilliant late afternoon sun. 
  Dr. Flash's advice on fill flash was erroneous and the subjects came 
out slightly brighter than the background.  The eye tries to make sense 
of that and the effect was to make the whole beautiful scene look like 
it was shot in a studio with a fall photo as a backdrop.  Flat and 
lifeless.  Ugh!  Post processing fixed it up a lot but it didn't really 
look like it should have.

Chuck Norcutt

Moose wrote:

> Aaaaargh! That is so beautiful that I resisted when posted before. I 
> just wanted to see that perfect young skin glow and the light center of 
> the image on her face. A different image, but I like it a great deal 
> too. http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Bernakiewicz/girl-2-s.htm
>> http://www.myfourthirds.com/document.php?id=24925 f5,6

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