Skin Colour opinion

[ozczecho]

Hi everyone,

I am a proud new owner of a Viewsonic vp2130b lcd monitor and I am now trying to calibrate it for correct colour reproduction. Ideally this would be done with a spyder, but I have to do without for the time being

Anyways how does the skin colour look of the picture below?

Some exif data: Nikon D70, 70-200VR f/5, 1/125s, spot meter, WB - Direct sunlight.



TIA

Mike

[stubbsy]

Mike

Skin tones look pretty good, but if you look at the boy's white shirt it has a slight cyan cast in the shadows, but only slight. A good place to check colour balance is to look at the whites of the eyes

[Matt. K]

Mike
Skintones are close but a bit red. If you have Photoshop or similar try this...enlarge the image and open the curves palette and click on the middle eyedroper (gray one) Click on a clear white of the boys eye. This will adjust the colout balance to neutral (or close to it) and you will see an improvement in the skintones.

To assist in calibrating your monitor open the image on the frontpage of this forum under image files (bottom left hand of the page) called printer calibration and adjust your monitor using the chart as a guide. Watch the black and white tones and skintones as you adjust. This will get you pretty close.

[ozczecho]

Stubbsy and Matt, I am happy you guys called it close. I will try the techniques outlined to get it spot on...This is a great relief for me

Thanks a lot.

Mike