Chapter 5

Getting Your Color Right

if your color’s not right...it’s wrong

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Nailing your color is really important when it comes to photography. But, while someone looking at your image might not know how green the grass was that day, or how blue the sky really was, there is one thing that’s pretty much universally known, and that’s skin tone. If your skin tone is off, people will know it. This happens most often because of Auto white balance. It’s actually good in most situations, but where we get burned is when we’re shooting a portrait ...

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