Please help me....

[lalu dolphin]

Hai,
When I was taking pictures in my studio with white or light colour dressed people ,the face of the people is coming very good but dress detais is burning.I tryed myself-decreasing lights,
different angle of lighting etc...I have get dress details but the face of people???I did not happy
in that result.Please give me a advise for this problum...
Thanking you.

[RexK_Cozumel]

The easiest thing to do is to have them wear something other than white. haha.

Aside from that you can feather the light so that it hits more on the face and falls off to where you retain details on the cloths. Or you can use a gridded spot to push a little more light into the face while exposing for the clothing.

[WooD]

I would help if you posted an example image along with your light, and camera settings. What type of lights are you using?

I shoot people wearing white all the time, and never have a problem.

[Benji]

The inherant problem in photography since the beginning of the meduim has been that of compressing the light in the scene down to within the parameters of the medium. The human eye can see over 1 million different shades of the light spectrum. Out of that 1 million the digital camera's sensor can capture about 40 all within a contrast range of about 12 stops. Then photographic paper further condenses it to about 8 stops. All of this means you cannot exceed 255 in the whites or 0 in the blacks, and you should not exceed 32 in the blacks and about 252 in the whites.

When you say the skin in your subjects is "properly" exposed but their white clothing is over exposed, you are not exposing your subjects properly. Your contrast range is too wide. An example of this is using sunshine as your main light source and not using a fill flash to raise the shadows up to within the parameters of the sensor.

Benji