Differences in light

[Photo's by Mike]

How do you meter for this type of lighting so you don't over expose the hair or any other light area?
Thanks for any response.
Mike

[Gatorboy]

Hold your light meter in front of the face of your subject pointing the dome towards the camera ... or you can meter the ambient light and use a bit of fill flash if the background seems a bit hot to you.

[chtgrubbs]

Your basic metering for the skin tone is spot on, but you have a situation here where the contrast range is beyond the capability camera to hold detail in the extremes. Generally in this situation I would use a diffusion panel between the subject and the direct light to both soften the light and reduce the overall contrast.

[Phil V]

Your basic metering for the skin tone is spot on,

I beg to differ, IMHO the skin tone is slightly overexposed. However, it'd be impossible to get reasonable colour in the sky.