Help with over saturated skin?

I previously posted a question with regard to an image which I felt had over saturated skin. This was caused for several reasons. Firstly I

had dialled into my D300 +2 saturation for a some silly reason and shot jpeg. The other issue was due to exposure I believe.

 

 

Now..............the image below was shot with +2 saturation in the settings on my D300, shot in a marque with a one Bowens flashlight and

silver umbrella.

 

I have tried adjustments- selective colour- red and moved the sliders as advised but was wondering if there maybe a more effective way to

correct this?

On most images people seem to have a fantastic sun tan!<div></div>

It seems to be more of a color balance situation

 

Have you tried white balance?

 

Tent has odd tone to it which may be influencing your sense of the skin tones. I would worry about the bride and if the others are off a bit not worry so much.

 

This is so way not as bad as a lot of what I see.

 

Brooke

Open in NX2 and set the saturation at -40

Looking better Kevan....I have a whole wedding to go through. Do you want to do them for me Kevan?!!!

Simon - why not adjust an image, save the settings and then batch process the rest (overnight whilst you are in

bed, whilst you are watching a movie, etc.)

 

I know you have probably been told this a thousand times - use RAW not JPEG! I use nothing but RAW for my

weddings. More leeway if you make a faux pas (forgot you had -1EV set, wrong white balance set, over-saturated,

etc.) - and you can always "batch" correct if necessary.

 

For example, I always use a whibal card and take a test photo (including the card) for each lighting situation I

come across - I then colour correct each test photo and batch process all associated files - I get really good

(white) balanced photos this way. I do a lot of my post processing whilst asleep - now that's what you call time

management!

 

Thanks for the offer but my sleep time is fully booked :o)

 

Cheers

Kev G

Actually, the skin tone seems okay, except for the [girl] on the bride's right. Maybe I need to recalibrate this monitor, but known-good skin tones look okay on it...

Have you tried the blue channel in levels?

The skin looks fine to me. I agree with Les about the girl on the right though. My monitor is the NEC 2690 calibrated with colormunki.

 

If you think its too over saturated though a simple photoshop desaturate with the color/saturation slider. I can't remember the combo but I think if you hold the shift/alt keys and roll across the area you have problems with it will allow you to adjust just that portion of the image. Its the most acurate way of controlling portions of color.

 

the other is lightroom 2 with the painter brush and to brush away the over saturated parts.

 

Hope that helps but I still think it looks great.

I don't think your skin tones are too bad, Simon. It's worth remembering that when you have fabrics surrounding your

subjects that have a fair bit of turquoise (two of the friends each far side), as well as the white of a wedding dress, it

is not unusual for skin tones to look as though they have a bit of colour towards the yellow spectrum in comparison.

So I don't think the skin tones look unnatural all things considered.

 

However, I've included a version where I lightened up the mid-tones a touch, darkened down the shadows to keep a

bit of depth, then applied a diffuse glow on a separate layer and overlayed at an opacity of 30%. I find this can just

lighten skin tones enough to make a difference when it's necessary.<div></div>

Well for obvious reasons (not getting paid, using GIMP) I'm not putting much time into this, but have you thought of some variant on this idea.<div></div>

you could always black and white it. ;oP

Thank you everybody for taking the time to help.

Jo.......Is it possible you could run me through step by step what you did.

Part of your problem is your flash unit. It looks like you bounced the flash and the skin tones are over exposed. Then the legs look like the had been sunning for months.The legs are under exposed. The flash you used didn't work at all. I'm unsure how this happened, but get some experience solving this. You can't continue shooting wedding groups like this, so ditch the silver umbrella and buy a white one around 45 inches to 60. That will warm up the pictures and decrease major glare such as the far left lady. The glare on her forehead can't be fixed without some photoshop time. That was surely caused by the silver.