Thread: Two different light source

I am not sure if my question will make sense but here goes. Last night, I wanted to do some practice shoot on DS. It was dark and I had my bedroom light on, which is the yellowy Tungsten light. I used my speedlight to get a better exposure and focus. But then I notice, maybe it was just me, that the skin tones are all funky. I followed Amber's color tutorial but I still feel that its yellow/red. I have my camera set on Auto on mode and of course always shoot on RAW.

Maybe I just need another person to take a look at it. Here are the shots I took last night.

f3.2, SS1/125, ISO 1600 same setting for all
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Looks like too much magenta to me.

What color is that backdrop supposed to be. I'm seing pink...is that right?

That's my bedsheet He was on my bed.

does your ISO need to be that high???

El - I opened in ACR, used the temp sliders, upped the yellow (+7?) and decreased the red (-19?)

My ISO was high to compensate for upping my SS to 1/125

So is the red skin a result of the tungsten lighting? Would this be a good rule of thumb to apply on pictures?

1) If picture is red/magenta add yellow
2) If picture is yellow add some red

Hmm... I thought if you were using a speedlight, you could keep your ISO to around 400 because the flash freezes motion anyway. I haven't used mine since last winter, so I don't rememeber.

What did you do in pp'ing on these? Did they look that red SOOC?

Stacey's right, with your speedlite, you don't need to go above ISO 400. (when I did the wedding, the photographer told me the magic numbers when using a speedlite are AP 4.5, SS 1/30, and ISO 400).

I'm not good with skin tone numbers, but I do see where he's off.

You've already gotten good c&c ... I just wanted to add that he just gets cuter and cuter! I love seeing pics of him. and despite the color issues, the catch lights are wonderful, focus looks great too!

TFS,
GiGi

Originally Posted by Melvin76

Hmm... I thought if you were using a speedlight, you could keep your ISO to around 400 because the flash freezes motion anyway. I haven't used mine since last winter, so I don't rememeber.

What did you do in pp'ing on these? Did they look that red SOOC?

I guess I was thinking of dragging that shutter by placing a high ISO. I'll keep in mind to not go above ISO 400 with a speedlight.

Yeah, SOOC, they were red, I have to upload the original tonight.

i love that first picture stacey's edit looks nice! and ditto on everything else. I usually stay around 1/60 when I use my speedlight