I shot this using only my camera, Sony A6000 and Sony Zeiss 55mm f1.8 FE lens without any extra equipments. I had very little knowledge using Adobe Lightroom. This shot was taken at Kellie's Castle, Perak, Malaysia, midday with harsh sunlight. Hoping you guys, more experienced photographer will give me guidance to improve myself. Thanks guys :)
Good job. Yes I would have moved her away from the wall, so the bricks were smaller, darker and less sharp and I would have cropped tighter so more of the image is girl and less masonary. The head scarf looks great but the label needs editng out. Finally, you need to be aware that built in metering is easily fooled in sitiations like this where the background is large and very different in tone to the subject's face. Here the girl has a pale face, which is small in frame and brightly lit, whereas the dark bricks are less brightly lit and large in frame, so the meter hardly considers the face. Net result the image is perhaps 1/2 stop over exposed. I guess your camera has an exposure compensation feature and it is for these kinds of situations, where the meter will be inacurate that it is provided. Check your histograms before deciding on the correct exposure. If you have shot RAW then you can easily correct this small error in Lightroom or other RAW converters and no one would ever know. If you shoot JPGs, you can also improve it because the error is quite small but not so well and not so easily. So don't shoot JPGs again. Always shoot RAW, if you are serious about your photography.
Or bracket.
Good point and totally correct but developing one's knowledge, understanding, skills and working practices is always going to be an investment in ones photography. Bracketing is more like an insurance policy than a photo skill, useful but secondary.
If one wants to be even more serious, using an incident meter is often helpful too. But with a little guidance, knowledge, experience, thought and care a built in meter (TTL) is close enough for most situations and most digital photographers and one less piece of kit to pay for and carry about.
When I'm at work, I can be pretty spare with words.
When in doubt, bracket. But take the time to look at all three exposures. And consider your metering pattern.
Bracketing, thinking and so learning a good way to develop your understanding of how your meter works and when it will not get it right. And equally important, why and how much error it will cause, so how much opposite adjustment you will need to make in future. Make guessing the correct adjustment a game and hope you win often.