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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felisek" data-source="post: 365655" data-attributes="member: 23887">Thanks, Fish. I processed these pictures at work, immediately after I took them. We have cold energy saving lights with weird colour cast at work, so it must have affected my perception of white balance. I'm back home now, with natural light around and indeed, #1 and 2 seem to have a greenish tint. I will have a look at it.They are all processed in ACR and then Photoshop with NIK plugins. I did a few tweaks in ACR before importing them to Photoshop (lens correction and exposure in some cases). I checked white balance, but as I said, I was in the wrong environment to do it correctly. Then, I did use Pro Contrast and a bit of Detail Extractor in some case, Brighten/Darken Centre. A bit of Viveza to brighten eyes (the natural light pictures had rather darkish eyes). So contrast is already increased! The originals were even more bland. I think I did increase saturation slightly in #1, what I'm saying is that I don't want to push it any more, as it can affect skin tones.What I really want to know is how to improve them before PP. Different angle, distance? Different light? Some other tricks? Perhaps I should have posed these people differently?BTW, f/2.8 was almost necessary in #1 and 2 because of low light. I could probably push it to f/3.5, but not much more without risking blur (except for #4, they were taken handheld). #3 could have been done with smaller aperture and more flash, I can see it now.</blockquote>

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