Ken, your post precisely sums up why I do black and
white film exclusively... Yikes.
On 05 Oct 2010, at 7:26 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>
>> On my monitor the skin tones look a wee bit too much on the red side.
>> HOWEVER .......... it is a fabulous super photo of mother and
>> daughter.
>>
>
> Agreed. But that does point out one of the nuances of the E-1's WB
> which I
> discovered years ago and eventually came to grips with. The WB on
> the E-1 is
> Red-Blue. On other cameras, it trends towards Orange-Blue. (The L1
> is DayGlo
> Orange-Blue).
>
> If you combine the E-1's WB being slightly too warm (red) and you
> have the
> Saturation set to "Portrait" and you are in sRGB the skin will go
> too pink
> on you. However, if you change to aRGB, the skintones are absolutely
> perfect.
>
> My standard settings on the E-1 are pretty straightforward when doing
> for-hire people/portrait work with flash:
> Saturation: CS2
> Contrast: 0 (+1 if the lighting is flat and I want to make things
> pop and
> I'm shooting jpegs)
> Colorspace: sRGB
> Sharpness: 0 (if ISO 400-800), +1 (if ISO 100)
> WB: 5300 -1
>
> One recent adjustment to the above. With the Leica 14-50 lens, I've
> drifted
> away from increasing Contrast as it is already a bit more zippy.
>
> When I have full control over my lighting, I stick to ISO 100, but for
> event-work with flash I use ISO 400. When converting using Studio
> 2.0, I
> turn NR on.
>
> AG
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