SimonMW
Sep-11-2007, 06:49 AM
As I mentioned in another thread my background is in video. I'm new to digital photography.
I've been reading a lot of threads about skin tone, and the subject of white balance comes up a lot. This subject interests me a lot as getting good skin tone seems to be a bit of a black art!
I have a number of photos taken at a barbeque recently. It was late afternoon/early evening so there is a nice warm tone to the pictures. In video I rarely ever white balance the camera unless I am in a mixed or unusual lighting situation because white balancing works by taking away colour. In a warm early evening situation or sunset the last thing in the world I would do is to white balance. Because that would take away the very warm hues that I am after.
So my question is really about how I can judge and colour correct skin tone for printing under such lighting without making people look like they have been on an Australian beach for several hours? :D I'm not even sure how much adjustment my photos need. I've posted some uncorrected ones here. The second one I would like to correct as it was very underexposed a lot and I am having difficulty bringing it back and getting the colours right.
http://www.simonwyndham.co.uk/tempphotos/bill.jpg
http://www.simonwyndham.co.uk/tempphotos/daisy1.jpg
http://www.simonwyndham.co.uk/tempphotos/daisy2.jpg
I've been reading a lot of threads about skin tone, and the subject of white balance comes up a lot. This subject interests me a lot as getting good skin tone seems to be a bit of a black art!
I have a number of photos taken at a barbeque recently. It was late afternoon/early evening so there is a nice warm tone to the pictures. In video I rarely ever white balance the camera unless I am in a mixed or unusual lighting situation because white balancing works by taking away colour. In a warm early evening situation or sunset the last thing in the world I would do is to white balance. Because that would take away the very warm hues that I am after.
So my question is really about how I can judge and colour correct skin tone for printing under such lighting without making people look like they have been on an Australian beach for several hours? :D I'm not even sure how much adjustment my photos need. I've posted some uncorrected ones here. The second one I would like to correct as it was very underexposed a lot and I am having difficulty bringing it back and getting the colours right.
http://www.simonwyndham.co.uk/tempphotos/bill.jpg
http://www.simonwyndham.co.uk/tempphotos/daisy1.jpg
http://www.simonwyndham.co.uk/tempphotos/daisy2.jpg