Sunday 25 May 2008

D3 Picture Control and TTL/BL Flash observations

What's your experience with D3 Picture Control and TTL/BL Flash?



Here's an interesting thing... if you set the D3 Picture Controls to something nearer to 'Vivid' when using balanced fill flash (TTL/BL) with the SB-800 you can expect to get some strange skin tones.

Checking back over some recent outdoor portrait work I noticed just how ghastly some shots are when using Standard Picture Controls setting. I hadn't noticed quite how bad some are until I got hold of a new NEC LCD2090UXi colour monitor last week.

Now that I can see colour the way it's supposed to look I've discovered what I need to do get these fill-flash colours looking more realistic - tone down the saturation.

bfn
Greg

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