I have an issue with skin tones, with my RAW Sony A9II files I do some basic edits skin tone leans more red/pink a alot of the time. I am trying to figure out ways to make it more natural but I’m not really sure how.
My first tests would be with the HSL tool and/or DCP profiles.
Both ways are able to correct skin tones globally, specially if the colour shifts were caused by how DxO handles Sony colours.
We could test several approaches if we could have a sample raw file or two. Post these as attachments or by adding a link to a fileshare.
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04 - Rocky Romero vs Aaron Solo - 08-11-24_022.ARW (23.9 MB)
05 - Blake Christian vs Rosario Grillo - 08-11-24_010.ARW (23.9 MB)
06 - Dustin Rhodes, Sammy Guevara, The Von Erichs vs Dark Order and Undisputed Kingdom - 08-11-24_019.ARW (23.8 MB)
attached 3 raw files, this is the most recent examples usually I am not shooting opposite a red stage so that I think makes it worse usually I have an arena crowd in front of me but even then it does lean more red/pink then natural skin tones. I am using a magenta shift because otherwise theres a yellow tint on various surroundings
I used the WB on the referee’s jersey (pic 05) and transferred that value to the others
(checked with virtual copies to compare easier).
Did you notice the color shift only in this spot/arena or elsewhere too?
03 - Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy, Kyle O’Reily, Dante Martin vs Zack Sabre Jr., Konsuke Takeshita, Roderick Strong, Kyle Fletcher - 06-19-24_48.ARW (24.0 MB)
03 - Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy, Kyle O’Reily, Dante Martin vs Zack Sabre Jr., Konsuke Takeshita, Roderick Strong, Kyle Fletcher - 06-19-24_69.ARW (23.9 MB)
It’s not extreme in a normal arena setting but it’s definitely noticeable in my opinion especially when I compare to skin tones of other photographers on the same event.
In addition to @Wolfgang …
I suppose that wrestling halls don’t use high CRI LED lighting either. The lights in the background propose some “white” light and the blueish hue hints at medium quality lamps or filtering for effects.
To (better) tackle heavily satured colors and unnatural skin tones start with “Neutral color”.
