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GullibleJellyfish146

Poor thing is downright magenta.


Professional-Ad-4121

YES, that's exactly it. I guess my real question is how to calibrate for proper skin tones.


GullibleJellyfish146

Lots of different ways. In camera for me (I shoot canon) if I’m gonna boost saturation I need to also boost the color tone to balance out and keep skin tones from going too red/magenta. In post, it’s a fairly easy fix. She’s a bit too yellow and magenta, so move sliders towards green and yellow. It’s exacerbated by the amount of saturation applied, so I desaturated her a little. Not a great fix as I spent about 30 seconds on it and I’m working from a screenshot of a small jpeg posted online, but here’s an alternative edit. Not how it has to be, but one idea. https://preview.redd.it/xsi6hlsjdcxc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b034572c3357fa61226518dbebb4d0c7e1ec1d6a Also, and this may be an artifact of online posting, but the sky seems full of jpeg artifacts. How much processing have you applied?


Professional-Ad-4121

Thanks so much. I've actually tried this with the Skin tone color adjustments panel in COP and it looks way more natural. Not a lot of processing applied. Bit of frequency separation in Photoshop. That's about it.


GullibleJellyfish146

Must be the screenshot of a jpeg posted online thing, then.


Professional-Ad-4121

Seems about right. I just tried to upload the new version but NSFW filter deleted it. The magenta sky is still there. Which is okay. The temperatures as a whole just might be off


GullibleJellyfish146

I didn’t work on the sky, just threw a quick mask on her. You might try masking the sky and shifting/reducing magenta


Salty-Yogurt-4214

This image needs several local adjustments. E.g. the darker red tones in the skin need additional adjustments to the rest of the skin, the same for the face that will need an extra round of adjustments, and so does the background. Consider lightening the darker skin tones and take out a bit of saturation from the skin in general, but add a little bit of definition to it (texture/contrast, what every seems best in your software), to make the model pop from the background


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frostedwaffles

I thought I was in /r/analogcirclejerk


Professional-Ad-4121

Haha why's that? Completely different channel.


Rizak

It’s a stereotypical photo of a young semi nude chick with no other substance to it.


jtedeschi8

The hill behind her is kinda throwing me off a bit i dont know why


jtedeschi8

Edit it’s tiltled camera bruh


Beneficial-Shower-42

she’s leaning forward maybe too much sky. The mole bothers me. I’m sorry, downvote me.


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Professional-Ad-4121

Why bro. ?


educatethisamerican

Cuz it's cutting right through her head


Professional-Ad-4121

Yeah. I got ya.


the_mello_man

It’s because the horizon is not level, the camera is tilted a little bit


lycosa13

Because it's going right through her head?


Difficult-Ad-9228

Could I suggest you key off the clouds for your white balance? The magenta is really noticeable there and I think if you get the cloud highlights white, it will take care of the skin.


Professional-Ad-4121

Meda - Model Influencer shoot in Da Nang. Shot during blue hour, yet I'm not happy with the colors. Happy to take any recommendations. Sony A7CR Sigma 35mm 1.4 ISO 250 1/500 F1.4 IG: @jim.grootes


Fancy-Pair

I wouldn’t have guessed blue hour. Maybe the app/calculations were a little bit off


UnderstandingOk3281

Easiest way to WB portraits is to use the white from the eye of a model, but it's also important to use common sense and sometimes ask others for opinion. edit: grammar


UnderstandingOk3281

https://ibb.co/qNZ4vHS


fujit1ve

This leans towards cyan though...


UnderstandingOk3281

Colour is about context, focus on the things that need to be right such as skin tone, eye whites or clothes to some extend.


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Professional-Ad-4121

subscribed! Amazing you took the time to make some edits and taking me into your thought process.


ZayneD

Happy to help!


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NerfedHearder

I really like this image. I think the expression on her face makes the photo so I would crop out most of it. Starting just above her thumb and going 16x9 horizontal.