I shot in RAW format with a Nikon D3s and usually keep my white balance set to Daylight. It seem that when I get back to edit I always see too much blue and too much green in my images. Not a great color for my model/subject. This happens whether my subject is standing in green grass or on a grey sidewalk. When attempting to correct for this in LR, it just seems difficult to get my skin tones correct. At times, I've used a White Balance card in the color checker but even after clicking on the WB card with the WB tool in LR, it still seems to be overly green/blue. Could anyone offer a suggestion on how I could correct for this in camera so that my White Balance issues can be resolved.
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Your 'before' photo does look a tad blue and green to me but it also looks low saturation.
Yes, the SOOC is somewhat desaturated. I forgot to mention that my import does that with the Red's and Orange's to tone down skin tones. Could that have something to do with it?
Then right press on the AF selection button to bring up the saturation and hue options.
I have found with the D3s to shoot in Kelvin Manual around 5600-5800 in daylight, gives nice warm tones, skin colour, etc.
It just seems to give a better control rather than just selecting 'Daylight' mode.
Have you read this post I did also regarding Camera Profile for Nikon files: NIKON CAMERA RAW PROFILES
Also, black hair has a tendency to pick up blue from sky above anyway.
I edited the jpeg, but in Camera RAW I warmed up the Temp by +20 (jpeg of course)
Trev
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Here is the edit.
Really great looking shots David, colour is perfect to me.