Fuji 400ProH green cast to flesh tones

[psul_aul]

I am having some flesh tone issues issues with Fuji 400Pro. I am not sure if

it is a processing/printing issue, a film issue, or possibly an exposure issue

when I took the shots, but I am getting a green shadow in flesh tones.

 

Most of the subects have olive skin ... the walls in the function room where a

pale green .... I used a Nikon N80 with sb80 flash.

 

I am going to see if I can attach a photo here.<div></div>

[User_502260]

I have had this experience vith various films when the color of the walls in a room had a dark shade like green, red or blue. If light from your flash bounces off of a colored surface it can change the color of the people or things you are shooting. This isn't a standard processing issue. Most negative film is scanned before being printed rather than being printed optically. It should be fairly simple to remove the color cast with image editing software. The alternative would be carring filters of various colors to try to compensate but with image editing software this is no longer very popular.

[bill_tuthill]

Looks to me like the light coming upward is green, whereas light

coming from other directions is closer to white. Photoshop has no

"change color of upward light" option that I know of, so you have to

select the neck areas and add red/magenta to their color balance.

I also added yellow to all highlights to compensate for blue flash

highlights.

 

You might think Kodak 400UC, a warmer film, might help here. However

it would make red noses and ruddy complexions worse.<div></div>

[LenMarriott]

Psul, My bet is that the culprit is unnoticed flourescent lighting possibly combined a slow shutter speed. This combination is deadly for those unused to it, and even to those (like me) who have had their backsides bitten by it before. No fault of the film\processing. Best, LM.

[ronald_moravec1]

Rebalanced color in photoshop.

 

I think the walls were too far away to cast green, but this can happen in a small room.

 

Either you scanned an off color print or a commercial scan was off color.

 

This most likely is not a film issue.<div></div>

[Tim_Lookingbill]

Have you ever tried Options dialog box in Levels or Curves for

quickly correcting this type of cast while retaining flashbulb

whites?

 

Here's my attempt in the sRGB space: in Options chose Snap to

Neutrals and Find Dark and Light Colors. Under the clipping

settings clicked on mids and entered into the Color Picker RGB

150,150,140 and and clicked on Highlites and entered in Color

Picker RGB 240,240,250. Took about 2 minutes.