Controlling tone

Okay, I am here now with Cowgirl and Cowgirl's personal masseuse, who is going to…make sure that she stays here…while I demonstrate the problem of shooting something or someone who is a…really, really dark-black color.…Now you've learned that when you meter, your camera, your light meter, assumes…that what you're pointed at is a middle-gray tone.…Now, Cowgirl here is anything but middle-gray.…So when I shoot, what's going to happen is the camera is going to calculate an…exposure that will render her more gray rather than black, and I want this…beautiful inky black that she is.…

So to restore the tone in her in the image to where it needs to be, I need to…intentionally underexpose, because when I underexpose, it won't gather as much…light, and she will be left a little darker.…So I am going to take two shots of her, just as we did with Jack and Ursula, and…we can see the difference.…So here's one as the camera meters, and here's another one underexposed by a stop,…and here's one underexposed by two stops, because I am not sure where I actually…