If you’re taking a portrait of a couple against a backlit background, the likely subject would be the faces of the couple. So focus your efforts on getting the exposure of the faces correct, and ignore the background.
In this scenario, you obviously cannot blindly follow your camera’s exposure meter, which would cause your couple’s faces to be underexposed (the severity of the underexposure depends on the light ratio between background and subject).
So you would need to add in some exposure compensation, which would not only brighten up the faces of the couple, but also brighten
up the background, causing some or all the background objects to disappear. With only a quick look at the histogram, some may mistake the resulting picture as overexposed, especially if parts of the background are still visible but washed out. As long as the subject (face of the couple) is properly exposed, you have the perfect exposure for this particular picture.
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