D2H Skin Tone

[James Haba]

Here is an image shot in Raw. I made a jpeg out of it and I have it posted here: www.2020communications.com/image
You don’t have to look to close to see the yellow skin tones.
Lighting sunlight & 80DX flash.
Settings : WB setting was flash; Tone, normal; Sharpening , off;
He did not look like the photo shows he did at all.
I am wondering it the IR filter built into the D2H is letting some IR in and it shows up some things that are there but not visible unless you can see into the IR range?
Anyone have an opinion on this?
Jim

[Paul_Luka]

James,

That looks pretty bad. For best skin tones I use tone to less contrast on mode 1 or mode 2. Also, I have tried my SB-28DX on the D2h and the results are not as good as the SB-800. Similarly, the SB-800 tends to overexpose on my D1x. I cna't speak for the SB-80, but this is the first camera / flash pair that I've ever seen act this way. I can take the SB-28DX and put it on my F5 with great results, but not the SB-800. At first, I thought I had a bad unit, but it is dead on with D2h. Don't know if that contributes to the problem in your photo.

Paul

[Dennis_Stiff]

This is an example of what I've been seeing all over the place with the D2H. I have seen some good skin tones in a few...don't know why. Something about that sensor and how it relates to various light temp. Someone needs to post something that definately looks good. I have a few but I really don't have permission to put these up.

DennisS

[Phil_Adair]

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Here is an image shot in Raw. I made a jpeg out of it and I have it posted here: www.2020communications.com/image
You don’t have to look to close to see the yellow skin tones.
Lighting sunlight & 80DX flash.
Settings : WB setting was flash; Tone, normal; Sharpening , off;
He did not look like the photo shows he did at all.
I am wondering it the IR filter built into the D2H is letting some IR in and it shows up some things that are there but not visible unless you can see into the IR range?
Anyone have an opinion on this?
Jim

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No white clothes but some white in the shot

http://www.pbase.com/image/26971340

[Dennis_Stiff]

On my monitor I would say the skin tones look really good. The exposure is bright but not over. If this was printed down you would probably see some yellow patches under the eyes and on the neck under the chin.

DennisS

[AnthonyMedici]

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Lighting sunlight & 80DX flash.
Settings : WB setting was flash; Tone, normal; Sharpening , off;

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I'm wondering what this would look like if you set the WB to Sunny instead of flash. I've never liked the way Nikon Capture converts the flash WB. If you have space for the original NEF on the site, I'd love to down load and have a conversion try at it.

Tony

[Phil_Adair]

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On my monitor I would say the skin tones look really good. The exposure is bright but not over. If this was printed down you would probably see some yellow patches under the eyes and on the neck under the chin.

DennisS

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I can make them look bad, splotchy, yellow, or magenta by

Using srgbIII

setting tone comp to low

misetting white balance etc.

I'm not sure why I would want to.

What I posted is what I submitted for print and the photodesk has never complained.

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