John. Very nice characterisation of the soup woman.
Could you try to develop the RAW for better skin tones? I know the light in these venues is bad.
Did you use a flash? I would try to do a soft RAW development and then use a filter like dynamic skin softener
befor output sharpening. Or am I on the wrong track here?
Thanks Frank.
This is typical an example were you need more time to consider options of post processing. Shot in high ISO, dark, scarcely lit, cropped. I refrain the usage of flash in the fieldwork. The world-outside is not a studio, and it gives me a feeling of an unnatural effect (although very controlled diffuse flash can be useful)
And as I only needed web-quality of very small size, an opportunity to use different lenses I normally would have done. In this case the 50G/1.8 I have three 1.8G lenses (28-50-85) and in evening and night situations they behave, how shall I put it, uncontrolled. Sometimes very lousy, sometimes acceptable, sometimes good, usually when going on the 'all manual' options. Perhaps an autofocus-issue...
Back to the lady. She has a natural browny skin, which I tried to emphasize. Getting the correct white-balance is the first issue. My Df has, especially at daylight, an considerable green overtone, which needs correction (around -25 or 30 in the tint of the white balance). It's much less in evening-and night situations. With portraying people I try to avoid any sharpening even with resizing.
I must have a closer look at the file later this week.
