Honestly I don’t have an axe to grind on this subject.. I take lots of pictures of my friends.. It is mostly hobby based for a local club. I am just a hobbyist with a 10 gig $100 camera. But no matter what it is nearly impossible to get good pictures of My black friends. The lighting has to be just right, and if they are wearing a hat in the sun its impossible. It is hard to believe this camera can take so many good pictures with no skill needed, and yet fail at this one thing so badly.
You must have bought it from Ku Klux Kamera in Alabama.
Try fill flash which might be called something like “portrait fill” or “outside portrait mode” on your camera.
It might even be a setting for ‘portrait shade’.
It’s on there somewhere, though.
If I can get good pix of coal blue-black Dobes, you can get good pix of your buds.
:)
Well, they’re dark! It’s photography!
You talkin' 'bout Black Labs?
There is one of those in the fam and she is just about impossible to capture digitally unless you set the camera to capture low level light reflection and let everything else go. I swear her fur is about the most light absorptive material I've ever seen, though she has a fur sheen in strong sunlight that people remark about..
It is hard to photograph black stuff.
We have a big black Maine Coon cat. Every photo of him looked like a cutout silhouette. One summer we had a load of dirt delivered to level a few spots in the lawn. The cat decided he liked rolling in this dry dusty dirt and he became gray colored. Photos of him after rolling in the dust were remarkably good and detailed. Two years after this, we bought a new camera. The new camera had a feature that allowed for photos in situations of same color. Mostly it was for taking pictures of snow where everything was white. It allowed us to photograph the cat when he was clean.