[PIC_THREAD] People, Portraits, Street

An Exception said:
This.
That's the natural colour.

Rojin considering you think my skin tones are too magenta on your monitor(s), does you daughters face look green on your monitor?

On mine she looks like she is seasick.
My monitors were calibrated on latest spyder elite 4.
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Not magenta, pink. Then in some it brings in a desaturated red, which just looks blotchy (usually when it looks like you are pushing the saturation in a pic as well) it doesn't look natural to me. I haven't seen your prints, so I don't know what colour profile you are using for that? I've only got a Pantone calibrator, but what I see on my screen I get in print (except blacks, which tend to be darker in print), using DSCL profiles so it can't be a mile put. More importantly I imagine though, is that it also looks this way on iPad (2&3), iPhone (4s&5) and S2 screens. So this is going to be indicative of how your potential clients see it as well? Your pics have a consistent PP, and look. I don't think it's terrible or anything, I'm just not a huge fan of the desaturation and odd (to me) skin tones for weddings. I actually like it in the latest engagement shoot as it matches the feel/weather of the shoot. It would also work well in certain portrait shoots.

Basically I am just saying that your skin tones look processed rather than natural, that's all. It's no bad thing as you have your style. So I find it odd that you always pick up on cross processing, although if you're not a fan...!

There is a green/blue split tone in the PP that I am using, I like the overall tone. But I have played a bit with the tone/hue following your comments in other threads to reduce the sea sick look :D
 
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Ksanti said:
There's a difference between calibrated to match prints and calibrated to match the internet standard, I'm sure it's just that he's using DSCL profiles on top of a standard calibration which has boosted the reds too much. Her skin looks pretty much grey to me. I realise they'll actually be orange tones with the flare but certainly nothing that looks like a skin tone has been wrecked.
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I only use DSCL profiles in Photoshop...
 
An Exception said:
I'm a little confused. In the below example, the skin tones look pink to you?
On my screen, the they look mainly yellow'ish orange'ish although you can tell her cheeks are slightly rosy due to the cold. Same with ipad mini.
Charlie-Simon-2.jpg


However someone with a degree of Tritanomaly will see these tones as pink.
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Does anyone else with calibrated screens see red/pink skin?
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Nah, that is one of the better shots. As I said for me it is more prevalent in the more saturated shots that you do, this obviously isn't one. Although you can still see blotchy skin on the chaps face. I'm not colour blind either thank you very much!
 
An Exception said:
How about this one?
Devon_Wedding_Photographer-009.jpg


True story. A friend of my Grandma bought a car. Years later she commented on the colour. That's when her friend found out he was colour blind.
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Slightly pink there, not too bad though.

Ksanti said:
Rojin could you print screen the page and paste the relevant parts into this thread? That way we can tell if it's the initial ICC profile that's messing with it
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Viewing this on the iPad at the moment...
 
I hope you don't mind me posting your image?

Devon_Wedding_Photographer-043.jpg


The chaps face here has the blotchyness I was on about. It's as if the tones go from light to dark without any midtones? It's not that pronounced here though tbh, as it has been in other shots in the past. It's also on the lasses cheeks a tad as well.
 
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