Pope Owen

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Right under a light isn't usually a good place for a subject but Owen seems to have come out looking, well, papal.

I got one of these. I like it; it's a good length, and opens suitably wide, for the opportunistic indoor portraits I go for.

I'm trying to pay more attention to metering, rather than just letting the camera's evaluative metering take the strain. Advice on the net seems suggests various exposure compensation values between 0 and +1 when metering off white skin; +1 seems to have produced the best results on my friends. Not that we're a bunch of pasty-faced geeks or anything.

(If you look at the EXIF on those images¹ then you'll see that not all of them did have the exposure compensation on; those that didn't had to be brightened in software, unfortunately.)

[1] FAQ: ignore the "35mm equivalent" which is bogus. The lens has focal length of 85mm, the sensor is 22.2x14.8mm, and apart from Owen none of the images are cropped at all, and this should be enough for you to work out whatever number it was you wanted.

All of the above and a couple more.

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Tom did.