Capturing black clothing can be difficult. Maybe you have discovered this if you’ve tried to photograph black handmades before! Here is a tip that can help.
In your photo editor, increase the exposure of just the SHADOWS. Almost every photo editor has an option to increase or decrease shadows. So whichever one you use, it probably has this option.
These pants are the Dawn Jeans and the Philippa Pants. Two wonderful patterns from wonderful designers.
Denim is from Cloth Story.
Capturing white can be challenging. Here’s what I’ve learned — set the exposure low. It’s much easier to increase exposure in editing then it is to decrease exposure while maintaining details of the photograph. So err on the underexposure side.
Set the exposure so it under exposes the white thing you want to focus on in the photo. In the first two photos I wanted to focus on the white dress. The second two photos I wanted to focus on the room itself.
