My wife in the woods.

RyanS · February 17, 2012

Is it just my uncalibrated display, or does her skin appear especially orange?

W.W. Webster · February 17, 2012

RyanS wrote: »

Is it just my uncalibrated display, or does her skin appear especially orange?

scotthofferphotography · February 17, 2012

W.W. Webster wrote: »

''???? My monitor it looks normal with about a 3200k color warmth to it..???

divamum · February 17, 2012

Very orange on my (calibrated) monitor - as though the orange slider in lightroom had been pulled up to maximum saturation. On my iPhone, however, it only looked a little bit warm.

anonymouscuban · February 17, 2012

Oh Rindge

Bilsen · February 17, 2012

Scott, I've got her pretty orange too on a calibrated screen. Also, I see the light on her face as kinda of flat and the right side and top of her hair (camera left) appears more blown out than hi-lighted.

That said, I'll be happy to look at any image of your wife that you care to post.

scotthofferphotography · February 17, 2012

would one of you be kinda enough to edit the (orange on a calibrated monitor) and repost so I can see what you mean? it doesnt look orange at all on my laptop screen.

Hackbone · February 17, 2012

Very orange also on my desktop.

Bilsen · February 17, 2012

Here's an adjustment, let's see what happens. Pulled her skin back to R:225, G: 156, Blue: I forget

I think it was a saturation issue more than a strict color problem.

Hackbone · February 17, 2012

My try

novicesnapper · February 17, 2012

I got John's is the correct one. Hacks is still a little orange to me. I also noticed this earlier myself but was short on time. Not sure how pink the shirt should be?

Bilsen · February 17, 2012

Wasn't looking at the shirt. If you like Scott, you can pull it back to red by erasing the adjustment layer on it before flattening the image.

Also, if you prefer, I recropped to place her eyes on one of the Rule of Thirds lines.

Moving Pictures · February 17, 2012

Hackbone - your try, er .. well, y'see, I ...

Well, it's like this. I agree the original image was a tad orange, even on my non-calibrated but pretty reasonable laptop monitor. And I agree it needed to be de-oranged.

That said, I dunno if you've achieved your goal. Something seems ... wrong, in "I applied a 10 per cent mid-eighties zombie flick filter" kinda way. (I'm attempting humour here. Not attempting to offend)

As an aside, I find the blown-out background a little distracting. My initial instinct is to suggest knocking the exposure down a stop, then compensating with a flash pushed a stop (which is what I do on the Canon with the 580EX in such situations.)

Yaflyyadie · February 17, 2012

I'll go with John's rendition

novicesnapper · February 17, 2012

Ok, that was weird. I downloaded the original to tinker with, and walla it presented great.
I thought it might be the hosting, uploaded the untouched "good" image to image shack that presented right, and it's back orange, wild.

fjcvisual · February 17, 2012

It would have been great to have her a little more forward to reduce the highlight on her hair. I like John's edits

novicesnapper · February 17, 2012

I just opened it in Gimp, it said "do I want to convert from c2 to RGB?" Is that the issue?

scotthofferphotography · February 17, 2012

I like Johns edit best. Thank you all for helping with this.. I am going to have to get a better montior. Mine sucks, I litterally can lean it back and forth and see colors I couldnt see with it straight up and down.

novicesnapper · February 17, 2012

I don't think it's all monitor, cause it's doing weird things on mine too. I went ahead in a quickie on Gimp, changed the hue and the saturation slightly, then saved back out. It might seem a little washed out, but was looking at skin tone mainly. By the way, which shirt color is closer lol?

scotthofferphotography · February 17, 2012

I just tried again, and it didnt come out like Johns.. I like Johns best.. 426753_290100907722505_100001677949791_768088_815259216_n.jpg

scotthofferphotography · February 17, 2012

novice and johns both look good, actual color of shirt originally was like johns..

novicesnapper · February 17, 2012

Her eyes look great, nice job overall, love the bokeh. Tough shot to take, the Sun as a backlight, and a flash or reflector for pickup.

scotthofferphotography · February 17, 2012

Thanks.. Novice.. I just tried another reedit.. how's this look? I tried dropping the overexpose background about an fstop.

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novicesnapper · February 17, 2012

The background looks great to me, but she's a smidgen dark. I might running an exposure brush over her whole body and raise it slightly to bring her back up a tic. What lens you using?, man I love that bokeh, so creamy.

scotthofferphotography · February 17, 2012

thanks, tamron 18-270 I believe is what it was shot with.

Bryce Wilson · February 17, 2012

I wouldn't swear to it, but I think the challenge with the skin tones on this photograph is caused by the face picking up reflection hue from the shirt she is wearing.

DavidTO · February 17, 2012

It sounds like it might be a color space issue? As well as an uncalibrated monitor.

How's this?

RyanS · February 17, 2012

Here is my version that looks "right" to me. Not having the original image is causing some serious JPG compression artifacts. Most of the artifacts were in the original image, but they are more pronounced the second time through the bit squasher.

scotthofferphotography · February 17, 2012

They both look good guys. I think Bryce may be right on this.

MJRPHOTO · February 17, 2012

How is this?

My wife in the woods.

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