Reddish skin tones - DPChallenge Forums

Panasonic Lumix G 14mm F2.5 ASPH

01/21/2009 05:56:08 PM · #1

Hi
I'm looking for a little advice here.
I recently setup my own home studio with some white cotton sheets and and a used Bowen Quad200 strobe set.
I have one softbox and one shoot through white brollie.

All great and works fine, until I try shooting portraits at which point the skin tones appear redish for some
reason.

I'm using a Nikon D200 with no filters at say F16, ISO100 and 1/250s (to sync with the strobes)

Question: Am I doing something wrong here?

Mephisto

Nikon Coolpix A

01/21/2009 06:05:34 PM · #2

there are several things you should check:

1) white balance: should be set to sun light (around 5500K) when shooting with strobes
2) color space: should be set to adobe rgb for portraits, as s-rgb tends to render more reddish and saturated tones (good for landscapes, but not portrait)
3) check your individual color profile, and manually reduce saturation, contrast and if needed change magenta channel slightly towards green
4) check that nothing reflects the light towards your model, i.e. red wall

in any case you should shoot raw so you can always easily change color profiles and spaces in post.

jdannels

Nikon D300s

Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM for Nikon

01/21/2009 06:06:01 PM · #3

what is your white balance set to?
Try daylight, your camera could think it is one thing and then when the flash pops it is another.
Your set of lights hould tell you but I would try setting the kelvin temp to around 5400K and see if that helps.

Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM for Nikon

01/21/2009 06:46:49 PM · #4

Hi

I tend to use Auto White Balance or Flash when using the strobes but I'll try your suggestions, especially the Adobe RGB and get back to you with my findings.

Many thanks indeed for your advice

Will....

jdannels

Nikon D300s

01/21/2009 08:40:22 PM · #5

I looked it up from what I could find your white balance for those strobes are 5600 k. Try setting that manually and I think you will be in business. :)

01/24/2009 09:26:18 AM · #6

Hi Guys

Right I adjusted my white balance to 5600 and that did seem to help.
I then selected Adobe RGB, the only other option to S-RGB on my D200.

Using Camera Control pro I took some test shots.
They appeared much better in the viewer so all was looking good.

I then opened one in Nikon NX2 and to my suprise I got this.

It views fine in NX View but if i convert it to jpg or open it in Photoshop I get the same strange affect.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
Will....

ralph

Nikon Z9

01/24/2009 12:16:32 PM · #7

corrupt header in the image file ..
format the card & try again ..