White Balance Question

[Greg Haag]

Trying to work out the kink's of a new camera and software. This should be properly white balanced, but for some reason visually appears slightly off to me? Anyone that is view from a calibrated monitor would you mind give me your thoughts.
Thanks in advance,
Greg

 

[David Schneider]

Monitor I'm on isn't calibrated, but looks fine to me. I might adjust levels a tad and might warm it up a tiny bit, but that's just me. I set my cameras for 5400 Kelvin most of the time.

 

[Greg Haag]

David,
I appreciate the feedback, I think I am going to use my ColorChecker card and see what the results are.
Thanks again,
Greg

 

[ced]

The image looks fine on my calibrated screen, I wouldn't change the greybal.

 

[David Schneider]

Greg,

You might also want to check the image in different browsers. You might notice a difference.

 

[Jack]

Actually the model's skin looks a tad "tallow" or ever so slightly yellow/green on my monitor, and some people just have that color skin. With it, even a perfect WB at capture won't help because the red toned skin goes too red or orange with a WB correction. Best bet for these IMHO is to use a warmer light during the shoot, like a soft-gold fill reflector or very light "Sun" gel over the main.

 

[Greg Haag]

Here is where I am at this point. I have been color balancing of of the grey portion for image 1, I switched to the white for my color balance on image 2 and it looks much better to me. (no warming done, trying to get my color right first) Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks for everyones help!
Greg

 

[kit laughlin]

Looks better to me, too, even on uncalibrated laptop. +1 to what Jack mentioned too, in the case of skin tones tending more to "tallow".

Best wishes to all for the festive season, too

 

[Greg Haag]

Jack,
Thanks for your input, I will give that a try!
Greg

 

[Bob]

There is a magenta cast in your grey card according to my display of it.
white is dead neutral. I am using the mac digital color meter and reading off the screen.
I shot a gal the other day who really had and was proud of her "Olive" skin and indeed, I took pains to maintain it.
-bob

 

[David Schneider]

Fun happens when you have a family and there are three different skin tones going on; dad is red'ish, mom is pretty good, daughter is blonde and pale, son is a bit olive. Or a mixed race family with dark complextion and white complextion parents and then kids. Or a family with a horse.....and you can be sure they will be more concerned with how accurate the horse looks rather than themselves.

 

[ced]

For me the new image is a touch too red but then the call is yours/your client's preference. I would balance on the mid grey and do a slight overall gradation change to how you would like it to be.