 Tony Peckman |
How to get better skin tones with White Balance. I hate adjusting for better skin tones in PS. I shoot portraits in RAW, and am able to adjust...it's just that I don't feel like I have a good eye for the right skin tone. I normally shoot in Auto WB, and have on occasion used a gray card with the correct exposure, but during PS editing I'm not sure if the even doing to the eyedropper on the gray card for that lighting is correct or not. Question: Using the Canon 300d, do most of you other owners use the Auto WB, Custom (I assume using a gray card), or do you shoot in the Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, etc. modes? Should I just shoot in the different modes, send the pix to my photo lab and see what comes out best? Any other suggestions besides "stop whining" and "dude, don't freak out"?
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Michelle Ross |
I shoot in highest quality JPEG my camera allows and I use the mode where I can choose daylight, shade, etc. When doing the studio work I use the flash option and they came out fine. When outdoors I use the daylight(sun) option. I have tried using the shady/cloudy one and it doesn't seem to really do good for me. Not sure this helps you really .. .
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Antony Burch |
Tony, I shoot raw everything with my eos 350 D, white balance is set to daylight but if your shooting raw it does`nt matter what the WB is set to as you have full control over it in CS, only if shooting jpgs will it help to get the WB right, I did find that it was better to adjust WB with jpgs as the AUTO setting gets it wrong sometimes, one of the various reasons I choose to shoot RAW all the time, try this RAW editing software its free and very good http://www.pixmantec.com/index2.html
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BetterPhoto Member |
did you try the portrait mode. On the MarkII you can shoot standard or Portrait(better skin tones). Not sure if all cameras have that option. My new PS version automatically adjust skin tones for the better, unless the picture is way to under expsoed.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Even Canon website says mach2 dosen't have portrait mode.
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Tony Peckman |
Thanks folks. Actually, I normally get better results when I adjust white balance in CS to "daylight" from "as shot". Soooo, I will try shooting next weeks sessions at Daylight on my camera and see how it goes, still in RAW if it doesn't go well. As I mentioned before Antony, I do shoot in RAW and can adjust in CS, but I don't feel comfortable with my choosing a good skin tone. Do you folks have your monitors calibrated by some external source (i.e. Spyder Pro, etc) or just trust your cameras settings?
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