Tips for brightening dark areas in portrait photography

If you simply want to increase the brightness of the face, you can use spot metering to ensure accurate metering of the face. However, the result of this processing is often that the bright background area is overexposed, resulting in a pale white.

So the most practical approach is to average light metering to ensure that the entire range of light exposure is normal. On this basis, flash and other equipment can be used to compensate for light in areas that need to increase brightness.