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Since I'm posting images of my girls - here is another...

A quick grab of my youngest whilst she was attending the birthday party of one of her classmates... This is indoors (but near windows) - straight ambient light, handheld with the 50/1.4 (I LOVE this lens for candid portraits).


NIKON D7000 + 50.0 mm f/1.4 @ 50 mm, 1/125 sec at f/2, ISO 100

nice one Rodney. Its interesting to see how the D7000 handles skin tones, I find its similar to the D300 and probably D90 but quite different to the older D80 for example. I often find the skin tones if correctly exposed or slightly over exposed take on a very pinkish warm tone which I don't like or reckon is totally accurate, however its always quite correctable by dialing the exposure back half a stop or more then shadow recovering, I find that gives more realistic tones - not saying this image is incorrect btw.

Good expression and you could also crop to get more impact if so desired - i found my eye wandered to the kid in the pink shirt.

The notion of "accurate skin tones" always intrigues me, since it gets a lot of attention without much to go by. If you put ten people in a row you will get ten different skin tones, varying much more wildly than the subtleties Gerry was getting at. Not only that, skin tones change a lot when one exercises, gets emotional, feels not quite healthy etc.

There seem to be certain tones that are easily recognised as incorrect or off, but generally speaking I'm not sure in how far the viewer of a photograph can judge whether the skin tones have been reproduced accurately or not.

Cheers
Steffen.

Very nice - a square crop may be the go to eliminate the child with the pink shirt which as Gerry has stated draws the eye away from the main subject.

biggerry wrote:Good expression and you could also crop to get more impact if so desired - i found my eye wandered to the kid in the pink shirt.

That's fair enough I guess - he is the birthday boy after all

biggerry wrote:I often find the skin tones if correctly exposed or slightly over exposed take on a very pinkish warm tone which I don't like or reckon is totally accurate

I looked back at the original image - I had actually warmed the image here to taste in post from the as shot with Auto ISO (increased temp a bit over 300K and +7 towards magenta on the tint) - it didn't make a huge difference but it has some - as you say even the as shot is a little pink (which personally I like).