White Balance within Color Calibration. Sony.

Thank you for your input! I have recently re-read your thread regarding the red cast on your baby, who must now be 2+ and keeping you on your toes. Edit: I have spent some time with your image and suspect that we are potentially experiencing different phenomena (my ‘fix’ doesn’t work on your image - but nothing else seems to either).

Back in the day of film I was a reasonably competent portrait photographer but I struggle to make digital work as I want it to.

Digital cameras seem to be quickly baffled by studio lighting, which drives my need for accurate white balance. Having worked my way through numerous WB references over the years, I have always felt that something better must be possible, which is what led me to experiment with CC.

My current fudge of removing the red cast with an extra copy of CC does appear to produce better skin tones than I can achieve when picking a white card in legacy WB, but I will probably have a different opinion tomorrow.

I suspect that I may end up happier changing my camera, rather than trying to fix the Sony issue, because such a fix will ultimately prove to be yet another fudge.

It is my understanding that Aurélien Pierre’s interest in programming was originally driven out of his frustrations with digital colours. I note that he continues to produce lots of monochrome images :grinning:

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