Red/Flush Face - What Happened? Not thinking clearly today. Shooting at an ice festival. Subject was NOT cold. Thoughts? EXIF: No PP Lens: 38mm/Auto Focus Aperature Priority F/18 ISO...

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Feb 24, 2013 12:22:16 #

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

Not thinking clearly today. Shooting at an ice festival. Subject was NOT cold. Thoughts?

EXIF:

No PP
Lens: 38mm/Auto Focus
Aperature Priority
F/18
ISO 200
WB - Auto

Color/tone very off. Can your clearer minds help? Thanks.

Red Face/Soft Focus

Feb 24, 2013 12:37:34 #

DugE Loc: Windham, Maine

I checked it through adobe and yeah she turns red both face and hands, I'm wondering if it comes from the fact that the ice in front is is dominating the balance, curious to see what the pro's think

Feb 24, 2013 12:37:55 #

PalePictures Loc: Traveling

HEART wrote:

Temperature was too warm. Underexposure of image looses detail in the face. I would not have shot this using Matrix metering. An alternative is to adjust the Exposure compensation in camera.

AWB was not working here.

Corrected image(At least as much as possible). +19 added to the HUE to cool the image down.

Corrected Whites not blown out

Feb 24, 2013 12:43:06 #

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

DugE wrote:

I checked it through adobe and yeah she turns red both face and hands, I'm wondering if it comes from the fact that the ice in front is is dominating the balance, curious to see what the pro's think

Thanks for taking a shot, Dug! Appreciate it.

Feb 24, 2013 12:47:49 #

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

PalePictures wrote:

quote=HEART Not thinking clearly today. Shooting... (show quote)

Thanks, PalePictures - will take a look and follow your advice. Checking EXIF does show it was matrix. You did a great job in improving it. Very much appreciated!

Feb 24, 2013 13:21:57 #

CaptainC Loc: Colorado, south of Denver

One thing I learned early on is that the color will only be correct with the proper exposure - at least close to it. And Russ is right on with the Matrix Metering observation - all that white snow will fool the camera. I would bet a quick check of the histogram would have shown the problem right away and you could have added a stop or two of Exposure Compensation right then. That histogram is there for a reason.
The recovery is good, but anytime you make that much of a recovery, you will increase noise because there was not enough data in the original.

Feb 24, 2013 16:49:27 #

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

CaptainC wrote:

One thing I learned early on is that the color wil... (show quote)

Spot on, Cap - only when I was re-reading the exif did I think to check the histo - the ec would have been the simplest to affect. Was concentrating on losing daylight at the time and was hurrying the shot. Appreciate your input. Thank you!

Feb 24, 2013 17:07:53 #

Oak Park Photo Loc: Los Angeles, Ca.

I see a few issues here. Under exposed allowing excessive noise in shadows, the camera exposed for the for ground ice instead of subject, auto white balance not very accurate, try using other white balance settings to find the best fit for your surroundings. Try to use your histogram to prevent under exposure as well. Your camera has a small sensor which also has a higher signal to noise ratio which is amplified in under exposed shots. Hope that helps.

Feb 25, 2013 07:32:39 #

Brian45 Loc: Melbourne, Australia

HEART wrote:

Adjusted brightness and increased hue.

Feb 25, 2013 09:33:42 #

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

Adjusted exposure only

Feb 25, 2013 12:04:34 #

mcveed Loc: Kelowna, British Columbia (between trips)

I believe the underexposure skewed your white balance. You should have been overexposing by one or two stops to get the snow white. Instead you underexposed by one EV (stop).

Feb 25, 2013 13:13:47 #