I like to seek opinion on whether the skintones are too yellowish. They actually look ok to me. Hope i do not need to calibarate my eyes
I like to seek opinion on whether the skintones are too yellowish. They actually look ok to me. Hope i do not need to calibarate my eyes
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If I'm not wrong, your 1st pic is shot using the 50mm f1.8...If u are shooting portrait that will literally fill up your screen (eg half-body or neck-to-face shoot) and u are using "Single point" or "Dynamic area" on AF-area mode, as well u are using "Normal zone" on "Center focus point" mode, then be careful that your "Center-weighted area" do not set too small (eg. 6mm diameter) else your subject of the four corner will be blur.
To overcome this, set your "Center-weighted area" to 10mm diameter under the "Metering/exposure" control custom setting...this will tell the camera to have a more wider area of center-focus point (vs 6mm diameter where center-focus area is smaller, hence subject of the four corner will be blur).
Are u using pop-up flash with "orange" diffuser?
One way to test your surrounding exposure against human skin-tone is to set your Picture Control to "Neutral", Image quality to "Fine", Active D-Lighting to "Off", Color space to "sRGB", Whilte Balance to "4170 K"(under Choose color temp.).
All these parameters can be set under "Shooting Menu". White Balance "4170 K" will give u the normal lighting skin-tone that we see with our eyes...however, this setting must compliment with rest of the parameters setting mention above.
If u find the surrounding exposure having too much amber lighting, using the White Balance "4170 K" as a bendmark, u can tone down the color by reducing the White Balance "K" to 3700 K or 3570 K,etc. Basically, the lower the value of the White Balance is the cooler the skin-tone will be...subsequently the higher the value of the White Balance the "warmer" or more yellowish/orange the skin-tone will be.
If u are using flashgun or pop-up flash, set your White Balance no less than "5000 K" value.
Hope this help...
Cheers^^
Before shoot, adjust white balance in camera.
After shoot, Adjust white balance in PP. Issue will be solved. Or alternatively, if you want to keep the warm background, in PP, reduce the saturation of the yellow and/or orange channel.
I thought just need to adjust the White balance. The black and the white cars are both abit yellowish. Just change the WB abit should fix it. Personally i like abit of yellowish tone but not too much
U have to adjust the tone and saturation setting when u shoot indoors.
For optimum sunlight outdoor, u wont have this issue
Im shooting RAW, and my WB set to auto. Check with the other WB settings during PP i find that auto one is the best. My pp software cant really let me have a lot of controls.
Thanks for the advise
I like to seek opinion on whether the skintones are too yellowish. They actually look ok to me. Hope i do not need to calibarate my eyes
Which PP software are you using? PS and LR allows for extensive WB tweaking.
Which one is better?
Left one like a corpse.
Right one is slightly too yellow. Still acceptable in my eyes.