David NjokuI'm not saying that the meeting camera in my office isn't calibrated for black skin, but I look like I'm about to snitch on the mafia and it's protecting my identity.
David Penfold 
@davidnjoku 😂🤔
Cecilia | MeraOrd@davidnjoku haha, aww!! That is not a good camera, no.
@davidnjoku If it's any consolation, my web cam tend to make my face pale as a white A4 paper sheet, and that is just as bad... I promise.
AnnieBuddy
Pete Ashton@davidnjoku Not saying this isn’t a massive systemic issue, because it is, but in this particular case you’re being underexposed because you’re against a very white background. The auto-exposure is looking at the whole frame and trying to expose it all equally well, which is why the white is coming out blue/grey. If the background was closer to your skin tone it’d probably be absolutely fine. Try sitting in front of a wooden door or a dark curtain. (I spent a few years teaching photography and this is a common error!)
MostlyBlindGamer@pete @davidnjoku I mean… we’ve had center-weighted metering since the 70s and face detection algorithms have been embeddable for decades. I think we should feel comfortable to say a) there’s no excuse for this and b) this isn’t happening because of technological limitations.
2xfo@MostlyBlindGamer @davidnjoku Oh, 100% agree. It really shouldn’t be happening. But if only people were taught in school not to sit in front of bright white walls or windows when on camera!
@pete @davidnjoku I totally get where you’re coming from, but I’ve spent enough years in corporate offices to know two things: 1. You don’t really have a choice and 2. The engineers making cameras know that.
dragonfrog@davidnjoku The camera / lighting / room colours combination certainly isn't working out great...
My wife is a theatre designer, primarily in lighting - so via her observations I tend to think of the lighting part of that combination first, set colour scheme second.
Three plus or minus five@davidnjoku
It's absolutely an issue of "white balance".
It's absolutely an issue of "white balance".
Craig MessermanNo, that's about color balance. Oh, wait...
@@davidnjoku also white walls are bad! If it's any consolation, I think there might be manual exposure in the camera settings that you can bump up. But if the exposure looks bad (it will likely overexpose the white wall), using a mid or darker background may help, like a bookshelf with books or something. Sometimes it can also help to throw shadow against the wall or by reorienting the camera so the rear wall is farther from foreground light. Basic cameras without HDR have a hard time in general.
GinevraCat@davidnjoku That's a great comparison!
myrmepropagandistnow this is just disrespectful of that camera
Thereverend4253@davidnjoku Did Viridian Dynamics make the camera or something?
It looks like quality of my old 720p webcam :/
Marud 
@davidnjoku wtf😆 ! the image is awful, you look a videogame playable character that hasn't been unlocked yet
@marud That's excellent. I wish I'd said that 🤣
lefthandmonkiAdd a voice modulator, and you’ll be all set!
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@lefthandmonki 🤣🤣🤣
Nu Modular@davidnjoku I was holding out for bold Swahili garb, to eloquently counterweight the photo faux pas!
Netraven@davidnjoku hopefully there perhaps a HDR setting you can turn on? On the screen at least?
Nicolai von Neudeck@davidnjoku out of interest: what happens if you are in front o a background that is darker coloured?
Tim@davidnjoku so sorry, I have yellow, brown, silver (amalgum), epoxy, purple and black teeth.