Portrait Advice

[EternityEight]

Hey Fellas.

I was at our company christmas party on friday and took a bunch of portrait shots.

I ran into a problem processing them because everything was so red, this wasnt so much the white balance being off rather there were just a lot of red lights

I tried playing around with it in lightroom but I think the data just wasnt there, anything else just looked unnatural.


In the end i ended up going b&w/duotone which i thinks rescues them a bit, but my question is - what would you have done in pp? I'm no expert so I'm just kind of bluffing it, and want to make sure im not missing out anything


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Other cc is also appreciated

Cheers,

Pete

 

[Phate]

I would have tried reducing saturation and vibrancy possibly. But if there was that much red light there isn't much you could have done mate.

 

[robertgilbert86]

Hope you shot RAW, these are fairly recoverable if so.
Just change the white balance.

 

[EternityEight]

I fiddled with the WB and pulled it all the way down but even at the very minimum everyone still had a very orange cast

It felt a bit uncanny-valley and was really distracting