White Balance Query

Clickr

Senior Member
Guys, I feel the white balance of especially the skin tones are too warm in this camera. Even if I adjust the overall white balance of the whole picture in Raw, the skin tones I feel, are still warm. Please share your thoughts.
 

BeegRhob

Senior Member
Do you have a filter on the lens? Do you have one of the scene modes on, not sure if it matters with RAW, I am still learning. Picture control settings? Just some thoughts.

Rob
 

Needa

Senior Member
Challenge Team
Maybe the saturation of the skin tone could be decrease and the hue increase to correct. Your PP software may have a setting for adjusting skin tones.
 

BF Hammer

Senior Member
@Clickr it would be good to know what software you are using to post-process with. There are color profiles for your D7000 available from Adobe that can be used in other software also, like RawTherapee. I also like to use the sample tool and click on a white object in a photo to get my white-balance starting point. Usually that will be good enough.
 

Clickr

Senior Member
I use Lightroom, It would be great to know if there are any such setting in LR for adjusting skin tones.
Maybe the saturation of the skin tone could be decrease and the hue increase to correct. Your PP software may have a setting for adjusting skin tones.
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
I dont use any filters though Bro. I just shot raw.
One tool for this will be the HSL panel. Of course "skin tone" is a pretty wide gamut but once you're in the Lightroom HSL panel, click on the Luminance tab; select the slider for "Orange" and try moving it to the right. It's impossible to say what your shots need, exactly, by way of correction without seeing them but the HSL panel should be a step in the right direction.
 
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