Skin tones...

[chuckunderhill]

<p>Hi Everyone,</p>

<p>I am going to be working with a model in the next week or so, and looking at all of the images she has had done to date, almost in every kind of light, she has a unhealthy "yellowish" tone to her skin, something she has commented about. Having met her in person, she is pale. I was wondering if I use a gold reflector, if that might not help with the tones.<br>

Suggestions, ideas, thought welcome!<br>

Chuck</p>

 

[mark_chartrand]

<p>It just sounds like they were printed badly. Correct the color in Photoshop like software. We used to use a gold reflector when shooting film (especially transparencies). Great for bathing suit shots.</p>

[red_scott]

<p>Yes the printing could be an issue. You could simply do some tinkering with your in camera white balance settings, to manipulate the color. A gold reflector seems to be a good idea as well. If you are using mono heads, or something, you could use different colored flesh gels to get the desired effect.</p>

[fullmetalphotograper]

<p>The most important this is to capture the image as close in camera, to match what you desire in the final output.<br>

If you have good image you then have a huge set of options to work with.</p>

<p>One thing to keep in mind a gold reflector is going to cast a golden light which means a yellow cast. See examples.<br>

<a title="JillClean by FullMetalPhotographer, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2486/3748951688_5f18ccd7a8.jpg" alt="JillClean" width="309" height="500" /></a></p>

<p><a title="glam2_127 by FullMetalPhotographer, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/3748163949_39917bc730.jpg" alt="glam2_127" width="305" height="500" /></a></p>

<p>Another thing you can do is some post work using photoshop.<br>

In the images below. These images were shot with the same model with the same basic lighting on the same day but the post processing was different. One image was desaturated.<br>

<a title="GlamShoot144122108 by FullMetalPhotographer, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3531/3183486375_000ced4d5d.jpg" alt="GlamShoot144122108" width="304" height="500" /></a></p>

<p><a title="GlamShoot142122108 by FullMetalPhotographer, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3326/3175999035_f0d4bf646a.jpg" alt="GlamShoot142122108" width="261" height="500" /></a></p>

[tina___cliff_t]

<p>I seem to have this problem with people who have darker skin. Does anyone know how to get the tone to look more natural and not so orange or yellow? </p>

[fullmetalphotograper]

<p>Well first you will want to do a custom white balance. I use a gray card. You also want to make sure that your computer and monitor are calibrated. This will give a good consistent result to work from. You then can make minor tweaks in what ever photo editing software you have.</p>

[chuckunderhill]

<p>Thanks everyone for the replies... was going to work with the model again this weekend, but I have the flu, and I don't want to share it.. :/</p>

<p>Will post my results when I am feeling better and we do the shoot.<br>

Thanks! :)</p>