So I sold my partners 7D to get the GH2 now I'm ending up with a green tint on all my photos and someone is a little mad and wants their 7d back! So, we all know that the 7D is a much better photo camera but how can I get rid of the green tint. I've messed around with WB, shooting RAW etc. Any suggestions. A lot of the shots are outside and yes a lot of green grass and leaves so perhaps it's just the environment.
GH2 as Photo Camera - Green tint
- Thread starter thabo
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Can you post a link to a sample image?
As a long time pro photographer, I hated the GH2 still photos until I started to cook RAW images with Adobe Lightroom. Pure green is such a simple thing to correct by adding it's opposite to neutralize it. ( Magenta is the opposite of green )
As a long time pro photographer, I hated the GH2 still photos until I started to cook RAW images with Adobe Lightroom. Pure green is such a simple thing to correct by adding it's opposite to neutralize it. ( Magenta is the opposite of green )
Blue Bomber
Well-known member
People say to adjust the WB 2 clicks to the left and 1 down to correct this. I don't shoot people much at all, so I can't say if this fixes the skin tone issue or not, but it does remove the green tint on other things nicely.
I recently invested some time into matching the GH2's Film Mode/White Balance to the AF100, which to my eyes, has a more neutral color balance. Here's what I settled on for the GH2 in daylight:
GH2 Daylight Settings
Film Mode Smooth
Contrast -2
Sharpness -2
Saturation -1
Noise Reduce -2
WB Daylight
A-3
M-2
On the GH2, medium gray tones are very sensitive to color balance. Here's an example of these settings, taken in shaded daylight:
GH2 Daylight Settings
Film Mode Smooth
Contrast -2
Sharpness -2
Saturation -1
Noise Reduce -2
WB Daylight
A-3
M-2
On the GH2, medium gray tones are very sensitive to color balance. Here's an example of these settings, taken in shaded daylight:
After pressing the WB key, the WHITE BALANCE screen will display a color tint grid, with A on the left and M- on the bottom. To ADJUST this setting, press the DOWN ARROW button. You'll then see a larger image of the color tint grid, and you can adjust the settings with the arrow keys. "A-3" means move the dot-cursor three dots left of the center, toward A. "M-2" means move the dot-cursor two dots down from the center, toward M.
Bruce Foreman
Veteran
What's a bit confusing on the WB "Adjust WB" grid is the use of "A" and "B" on the horizontal part of the grid. Normally you'd find that to be the "Blue/Yellow" channel but for some reason the Panasonic folks label the "yellow" end as "amber", hence the "A".
The issue of WB gets even more confused when the fact that we may tend to "see" or perceive color different from each other is factored in. Two people may or may not see color (and WB) the same way.
This caused me a bit of a problem in my last employment where the lab chief and I seemed to "see" to opposite ends of the "Blue/Yellow" spectrum. He would QC portraits I'd shot and printed and because he saw more to the "Blue" end he felt like I was printing skin tones "cyanotic" and would direct me to reprint adding more yellow.
When I had a print that to my eyes made the person look "jaundiced" he would pronounce it "perfect" (but the client would not like it so I had to "slip in" the original print). Eventually the military lab superintendent took over the QC and that whole issue went away.
The issue of WB gets even more confused when the fact that we may tend to "see" or perceive color different from each other is factored in. Two people may or may not see color (and WB) the same way.
This caused me a bit of a problem in my last employment where the lab chief and I seemed to "see" to opposite ends of the "Blue/Yellow" spectrum. He would QC portraits I'd shot and printed and because he saw more to the "Blue" end he felt like I was printing skin tones "cyanotic" and would direct me to reprint adding more yellow.
When I had a print that to my eyes made the person look "jaundiced" he would pronounce it "perfect" (but the client would not like it so I had to "slip in" the original print). Eventually the military lab superintendent took over the QC and that whole issue went away.