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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 266751" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>The lighting is not quite the same, the first seems to be in deeper shade than the second.  But it is mostly exposure and white balance.  Yours is a good picture, it would be hard to criticize it,  but exposure may be slightly hot for this fair skinned lady.  1/3  or 1/2 stop less exposure would help her.  The light meter overexposed due to all of the black clothes, which helped them, but it's tough on ladies  (the white dress would tend to underexposure - that is just how light meters work).   Less is sort of like saturation, in that it does not burn skin out to be bright white.  My own habit is to crank up exposure to be 'all it can take", but which is pretty tough on portraits, a little less is more.    And maybe slightly more pink white balance for the lady.  This stuff is easy to do in Raw.</p></blockquote><p></p>