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How to set camera to get a tanned look?
You don't.
You might be tempted to change the overall color cast by lying to the camera about the ambient white balance, but that will be very tricky to get right and to reliably repeat.
The answer ...
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How to make sky more green grey and skin more golden?
You can achieve this using flash, gels, and white balance.
Set your WB so that the background (the clouds) has the desired colour tone, this will probably involve a lower WB setting than the one ...
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How to make sky more green grey and skin more golden?
The simplest way to achieve this look is to shoot in appropriate weather conditions around sunset. Dark clouds behind the subject with the sun setting or low in the sky under a clear part of the sky ...
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What light is used in this photo?
You could possibly get away with a phone & ringlight to get something basic. A solitary ringlight isn't going to be quite the same as a full studio setup, but it can at least provide a broad light ...
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In photography, are skin color and skin tone two different things?
In general, these mean the same thing, but there important differences in usage in practice. For a general definition of tone in a photographic context, see What does "Tone" mean? — and just ...
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How to make sky more green grey and skin more golden?
In addition to ways to shoot this, I want to talk a little more about how to post-process this in lightroom or photoshop.
In this example I exaggerated the blue in the sky and gave the skin a bright ...
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How to set camera to get a tanned look?
Let us try to "Correct" the image to reverse engineer it:
The first visible thing is that the image is strongly underexposed. It has a low saturation on the colors.
Viewing human skin tones on a ...
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How do you make a skin tone metallic brown?
This is very easily done in Post Processing, I'll do it using Photoshop.
I did it with 3 adjustment layers which I'll explain.
First I did a Color Fill with Blend Mode set to fill using a bronze ...
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Why does my subject's skin have such a red cast — did my auto white balance fail me?
Based on the sample images you've provided, AWB appears to be working fine. Neutral objects appear neutral: The plate, the concrete wall, the gravel path, the door, the gray shirt.
You are likely not ...
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How can I correctly adjust skin color in Photoshop when I have a color vision deficiency?
I think I found something interesting. It feels like a revelation to me!
There are some articles about using the eyedropper but on CMYK model.
I found a very, very simple method that I feel works well ...
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How to stop my camera from exaggerating differences in skin colour?
You are likely not getting the colors you want because of the color profile on your camera or raw processing software does not match your preferences. Camera and lens selection may also play a role. ...
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Looking for details on Dynamic Range vs ISO
Your points #1, #3, and #4 are regarding the processing Canon applies to video files being saved in the C-log (Canon Log) format. There is processing applied to the data coming off the sensor before ...
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How can I remove these blotches on the skin?
Frequency Separation is the technique, you are looking for.
With this, you separate the image into 2 layers. One containing more of the color information and one containing more of the texture and ...
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How to set camera to get a tanned look?
It depends on your camera, and how much work you want to invest on it.
For example, if you use a Canon EOS DSLR, there's a feature called Picture Styles, that are ...
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How do I achieve these tanned skin tones in Lightroom?
Look at the banding in the shadows of the first image. The green and purple hues of the bands at various luminance levels are indicative of heavy use of the sliders in the HSL module. Considering that ...
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Skin tone starting point in Lightroom/ACR?
To ensure absolute accuracy, you can use a colour card to create an accurate profile for your specific camera and the lighting conditions for each shot.
Tucked away at the bottom of the Lightroom ...
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How to stop my camera from exaggerating differences in skin colour?
Photoshop may seem like a bit of a drudge, but makeup aside, there's not a lot you can do about complexion problems when shooting colour. And complexion problems are the main issue here. Fortunately, ...
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How to stop my camera from exaggerating differences in skin colour?
What kind of light was illuminating your subject?
It all starts with the light.
Always.
I've found that most of the time uneven skin tones are a result of:
Too many different types of lighting ...
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Different lighting setups for models with darker skin vs. lighter skin?
Disclaimer: I'm not much of a portrait photographer, and have never considered the differences between dark- and light-skinned models in my limited lighting setups. Grain-of-salt, and all...
When ...
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What light is used in this photo?
A dedicated point and shoot camera with optical zoom will take better portraits and allow better framing and composition than the rather wide angle lens on most phones.
When using a ring light, keep ...
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Why does my subject's skin have such a red cast — did my auto white balance fail me?
To make it simple the Auto-WB more or less tries to make a grey picture. In the second picture, the WB likely compensates for the red brick wall, and so reduces the red (the door on the right is also ...
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What is the significance when CMYK percentages are ALL high in a portrait?
I. Ouch...
Here is the original article linked in the small WordPress link you provided. Here is another source. I remember these techniques were from an article called "K is the key" but I ...
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How to make sky more green grey and skin more golden?
I've achieved a similar effect with an LED light that allows a custom color temperature to be set by mixing a bank of cool (5600K) LEDs with a bank of warm LEDs (3200K) that allows the desired color ...
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How to get these rich skin tones in black and white
Notice that this photo is not purely black and white. Duotone is the way for better quality in print. When using digital photo, instead of 256 shades of pure black and white you get 256*256=65536 ...
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How do I get a dark shimmery bronze skin look for my glamour photography? (image provided)
Based on a previous answer: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/50918/things-to-consider-when-creating-realistic-highlights-and-dark-reflections-on-me
Here are some experiments. They ...
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Color correcting difficulties... on cloudy days
Color balance is as much about what "looks" right than about meeting some idealised concept of "correct".
Without examples of what you are talking about any answer is pure speculation but I can list ...
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How can I add life to the dull skin tones in an image taken under low-CRI lighting?
I would start with reducing contrast and saturation.
This picture on Facebook you posted in the comment is a bit desaturated, but was also shot using a wide-open lens with a long focal length in a ...
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What tools can do severe contrast reduction, especially on faces?
I hope you are talking about the blown out part of a face. In Photoshop, using shadow/highlight option can reduce the blown out highlights of an image. you can just play around the values and see a ...
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