Why isnt the backdrop its true color?

[Emilymarie]

this is a SOOC image, the backdrop is "bone" color but it looks muddy grey!!

this is what it should look like

im using one AB800 with a softbox which is placed behind me. Suggestions? Also, is my "flooring" casting red galre? This is my first ever using my set up.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

I wonder if it is a white balance issue?

 

[Emilymarie]

maybe but in camera RAW I used the eye dropper tool for WB...............

 

[MissCream]

maybe but in camera RAW I used the eye dropper tool for WB...............

I'm not sure I completely understand what you mean but I think your white balance of your camera when you took the picture was off.

 

[Ron Evers]

White balance or maybe not enough light on the backdrop.

I have a similar issue with our green carpet, it is always blue in pics no mater what camera or lens I use. Other things in the pics will be true to colour.

 

[Overread]

You say that you used the eyedropper tool - which one (grey white black or all) and where abouts did you use it? Might be that you've used it on a spot that you think is one colour, but which (though the lighting) is in fact a slightly different shade and this is showing up with the background. Try doing a manual white balance approach (keep shooting RAW of course). Which should give you the true colour in the light you are working in right from the start (and for a studio setting where the light remains constant through the shoot once set the custom white balance should be fine for that shoot).

 

[kundalini]

Shoot a grey card for color balance in post work. I use an EzyBalance but there are several to choose from.

 

[Emilymarie]

Thx, I'll try this. Maybe I used the wrong. eye dropper. Which should I of used?

 

[Joves]

What mode were you shooting in? With anything but Manual you will need to use Exposure Compensation. The camera will under expose the backround to a gray for white and over expose blacks to gray.

 

[Overread]

There are 3 eyedroppers by default. White - grey - black. Each one corresponds to that select colour and when you use that dropper you then have to find a point of reference in the photo which is supposed to be pure white/black/grey. That is why the greycard shot helps since a proper 18%grey card in the scene first since then you can use the grey eyedropper on that card and it will give you the temperature and tint values for the rest of the shots taken under the same lighting conditions.

 

[Joves]

here you go a video.

 

[mwcfarms]

What mode were you shooting in? With anything but Manual you will need to use Exposure Compensation. The camera will under expose the backround to a gray for white and over expose blacks to gray.

I never use exposure compensation when I am shooting and I get white backgrounds. Is this because she is only using the one light? I know that a lot or most white backgrounds lights need to be 2 stops over the key light to come out white, is that where you are utilizing the EV comp? Just want to wrap my head around this.

 

[Joves]

What mode were you shooting in? With anything but Manual you will need to use Exposure Compensation. The camera will under expose the backround to a gray for white and over expose blacks to gray.

I never use exposure compensation when I am shooting and I get white backgrounds. Is this because she is only using the one light? I know that a lot or most white backgrounds lights need to be 2 stops over the key light to come out white, is that where you are utilizing the EV comp? Just want to wrap my head around this.

The video above shows how EC effects this. That is why I posted it. I never use it because I shoot in manual all of the time.

 

[Emilymarie]

It's always in manual

 

[Emilymarie]

There are 3 eyedroppers by default. White - grey - black. Each one corresponds to that select colour and when you use that dropper you then have to find a point of reference in the photo which is supposed to be pure white/black/grey. That is why the greycard shot helps since a proper 18%grey card in the scene first since then you can use the grey eyedropper on that card and it will give you the temperature and tint values for the rest of the shots taken under the same lighting conditions.

in camera RAW there is only one eye dropper, i move it around the image until the R,G,B are all the same or close to the same numbers.