How to capture natural skin tones in your portrait photos

Capturing natural, accurate skin tones is one of the most challenging aspects of portrait photography. Unusual lighting and strange colour casts can leave your portrait-sitter with sickly looking skin that can take an age to put right in post-production. But while we can’t all afford to have a make-up artist on stand-by, there are a number of ways that you can get fresh, clean tones straight from your EOS camera and reduce the amount of retouching you need to do.

Here, award-winning fashion and beauty photographer Jade Keshia Gordon offers five simple tips for capturing perfect skin tones. She explains how she approaches black, white and mixed-race skin differently, and how she sets up her EOS camera for consistent results.

Follow Jade’s advice, and you’ll be capturing perfect skin tones in no time!

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