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Struggling with white balance
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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 753397" data-attributes="member: 13196"><p>I looked at your original image in Camera RAW. Take a look at the two red circles on the upper right. The white triangle on the left indicates your blacks are clipped. That means you have lost detail in those areas. Now look at the photo. The blue areas that are circled represent the blacks that are clipped. </p><p></p><p>Then look at the red triangle on the upper right. That means your whites are clipped. The areas that are red that are circled are the clipped whites. Unfortunately clipped whites are displayed as red splotches in Camera RAW, and some of the red colors in your image are clipped. You've lost detail in those areas, too.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]352456[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>So I did a quick edit in Camera RAW. I allowed the program to use Auto White Balance. If you look at the image above, the White Balance indicates As Shot. I used the drop down menu and chose Auto. That lowered the temperature to be more blue (sorry, I didn't think to take a screen shot of the settings). It also changed settings such as the exposure, lowered the contrast, helped correct the clipped whites and blacks, plus other changes. The Kelvin you used was way too warm, and the colors were much too saturated which only exacerbated the warm skin tones. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]352457[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hark, post: 753397, member: 13196"] I looked at your original image in Camera RAW. Take a look at the two red circles on the upper right. The white triangle on the left indicates your blacks are clipped. That means you have lost detail in those areas. Now look at the photo. The blue areas that are circled represent the blacks that are clipped. Then look at the red triangle on the upper right. That means your whites are clipped. The areas that are red that are circled are the clipped whites. Unfortunately clipped whites are displayed as red splotches in Camera RAW, and some of the red colors in your image are clipped. You've lost detail in those areas, too. [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]352456._xfImport[/ATTACH] So I did a quick edit in Camera RAW. I allowed the program to use Auto White Balance. If you look at the image above, the White Balance indicates As Shot. I used the drop down menu and chose Auto. That lowered the temperature to be more blue (sorry, I didn't think to take a screen shot of the settings). It also changed settings such as the exposure, lowered the contrast, helped correct the clipped whites and blacks, plus other changes. The Kelvin you used was way too warm, and the colors were much too saturated which only exacerbated the warm skin tones. [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]352457._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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