 Deonne |
How to Stop Colour Cast? Hi, everyone. I use a D100 (I'm new to digital photography) in a home studio, and I'm having problems with a pink colour cast. I am using multi blitz strobes, and the walls of the studio are white. I've tried altering the exposure levels, the white balance, and flash modes - all to no avail. I can correct this overall pink cast using Photoshop, but I would really like to get it right without having to alter everything! Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Try changing your white balance. Your manual should explain it. You may have a feature to set a custom white balance, by taking a picture of something white with the lights you're using, and then using that picture to set the white balance - so that under that lighting, the whites will come out white.
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Deonne |
Hi, Gregory, thanks very much for your help. I played around with the white balance more after getting your tip, and managed to get the whites looking the way they should. The skin tones are still a bit pink - any ideas on why that would be occurring? Thanks again for your help - I really appreciate it.
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David Ziff |
I'm also puzzled why this is happening. Have you checked the color temperature to be sure your studio lights aren't cooler than white light? Whenever you have such an anomaly one tries to isolate it by excluding what it isn't with other tests. The manual has an in-depth analysis of white balance and image adjustment pages 50 - 62 - are you fully applying those techniques? You might also look up Thom Hogan's "Complete Guide to the Nikon D100" which is a lot more complete than the manual itself. I hope these suggestions help. Let me know how you solve this. David
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Deonne |
Hi David - thanks heaps for your response, and sorry for the delayed reply! I am still having the problem after going through your suggested possible causes. I have done the Bank A thing; I've been going through the manual, and trying different methods of adjusting the WB, which as yet has not helped; and it is happening in RAW format; The white board outside in the sunlight comes out white; the Multiblitz lights don't seem to be the problem as it even happens outside. All other colours seem to come out as they should, it is only the skin tones that have this pinkish tinge to it - it's as if the sensor isn't reflecting skin tones very well. I am going to keep playing around with the camera as I really would like to know why this is happening. Like I said in my first email, it's fixable on Photoshop, but i'd like to know why it's happening. Unfortunately I don't have anyone nearby with a D100 that I can compare mine with! If you have any other suggestions, i'll be very happy to hear them! Thanks again...
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