>
> On my monitor the skin tones look a wee bit too much on the red side.
> HOWEVER .......... it is a fabulous super photo of mother and daughter.
>
Agreed. But that does point out one of the nuances of the E-1's WB which I
discovered years ago and eventually came to grips with. The WB on the E-1 is
Red-Blue. On other cameras, it trends towards Orange-Blue. (The L1 is DayGlo
Orange-Blue).
If you combine the E-1's WB being slightly too warm (red) and you have the
Saturation set to "Portrait" and you are in sRGB the skin will go too pink
on you. However, if you change to aRGB, the skintones are absolutely
perfect.
My standard settings on the E-1 are pretty straightforward when doing
for-hire people/portrait work with flash:
Saturation: CS2
Contrast: 0 (+1 if the lighting is flat and I want to make things pop and
I'm shooting jpegs)
Colorspace: sRGB
Sharpness: 0 (if ISO 400-800), +1 (if ISO 100)
WB: 5300 -1
One recent adjustment to the above. With the Leica 14-50 lens, I've drifted
away from increasing Contrast as it is already a bit more zippy.
When I have full control over my lighting, I stick to ISO 100, but for
event-work with flash I use ISO 400. When converting using Studio 2.0, I
turn NR on.
AG
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