Nice vid. I’ve found (mainly through shooting nightclub photography) when you have a latte and a mocha people together, the lighting can be quite difficult to get right. Granted it is through ETTL and speedlites, and time is incredibly limited in photographing people in this dynamic environment. I tend to push the phlash (see what I did there) by 1/3 – 1/2 stop, as ETTL seems to favour latte flavours… I’m sure the camera brands don’t have a hidden agenda against the wonderful flavours of the world, but the cameras metering is only as good as the person that programmed it. 

I still shoot some film in the studio. I can be a bit old school and use the old ‘expose to the right’ technique generally exposing the subject around 2/3 of a stop higher… film has a better tolerance for this where as digital it can be quite risky (blowing out highlights). 

Ultimately it is down to the aesthetic that the client and photographer mutually decide upon, I’ve worked with people who prefer fill, and others who prefer it without. More people tend to prefer fill. 

my thinking is that white highlights on white skin aren’t as obvious as white highlights on dark skin!

My mentor the regretted Dean Collins, was saying that for white people the from is define from shadows and for darker skin with highlights