Red balance issues

[hernan]

OK guys... test time!

S mode, AWB. Smooth -2,-2,0,0 (normal saturation.)

S mode, AWB, -2,-2,-2,0 (-2 saturation)

Damn!

The reduced sat pic actually looks slightly worse! (No - I didn't get them back to front.)

Hey this isn't a controlled lab test - but I am disappointed nonetheless. Also confused as to why camera companies don't sort this out pre production - I hear that the Canons have similar red balance issues?

Grrr - any other ideas that don't involve buying this expensive IR filter? I aint making feature films... just want my kid to have a normal skin colour!

Just keep adjusting white balance manually? Bit of a pain in the butt.

Put your camera in adobeRGB mode (not sRGB)
adobeRGB is more natural.

 

[Svart]

I'm not seeing this red thing. I have to add saturation and red highlights in post.

 

[Isaac_Brody]

You can manually adjust the white balance and shift the magenta a couple notches towards green. I've done that and it definitely helps.

 

[plasmasmp]

I always manually white balance by directly setting the Kelvin, and sometimes even edit the profile afterwards to cut out the additional red.

Canon has a similar red push, but it only effects the underexposed areas of the image.

 

[the doc]

OK guys - I think i might have found a solution to this??? No doubt someone will have tried this before - but I was just playing around with settings and found something interesting.

1) Set AWB.
2) press down on the menu keys.
3) You go to a 'fine details' white balance graph.
4) I set mine 2 clicks to the right, 2 clicks up.
5) Press set.

Now - as far as i can see - this tones down the saturation a bit - in all camera modes... and your settings are saved when you turn the camera off. You can still use your other white balance settings as usual and they won't be affected.... but if you just want to use AWB you can now shoot without overpowered red!

So... is this smart or have i just done something wrong? I need some of you experts to tell me if this sounds good - and indeed if I should use different settings on this screen (I just experimented a little with them.)

Cheers! And hope this helps someone.

ps - would still love to hear from any GIMP experts out there about my above question too.

What do you think of this solution I have been trying Plasmasmp?