Perhaps it’s just a poor choice in background, I don’t know. It just looks weird to me no matter what I do. This is what I’ve done so far. I hope I’m posting this correctly! I’ve only submitted one other image here before, and it’s been a while lol…
It’s wrongly lit, nothing that can be done here in post.
You need a bigger diffused light source, black background and put the light behind the black background towards the subject or opposite if you have a white surface behind the setup.
Thanks, I suppose you’re right. I don’t have the option of another light source, though. All I have are two desk lamps with high output LED bulbs behind some parchment paper lol. Some day I hope to get a couple of soft boxes and speedlights but I’m broke right now (still… lol) so it’s going to be a while.
Late to this one, but the subtle coloration is a welcome respite from extreme blues…
I’m going to post this one as screenshots, to illustrate a way to deal with white balance. First, here’s the image with the “as-shot” camera multipliers:
Of note, the camspec project has SSF data for your camera, so I used the ICC camera profile here. Not a significant difference, but there was an oh-so-slight bump in the green tone. Also note, there are two whitebalance tools in the chain; the adjustment one is disabled. Now, look at the histogram and note where the blue channel peaks (this is a before-output histogram, so it’s still left-compressed). To adjust, I increased the blue multiplier until the three peaks aligned:
Ha, zoom in on it… “Window snip”. It’s from the Windows snipping tool, which I used to capture the screenshots. Need to make sure its window isn’t impinging upon the window being snipped, I guess…