Coming from Canon I am so used to Canon skin tone. What do you guys think. I struggle with Nikon files especially D800. D700 is not a problem.

Original Nikon

I think your nit picking tbh, I really don't see much (if any) difference

Certainly more saturation on the latter...can you do a split screen ?

IMO the skin tone change impacted the hat. It seems to have lost a little of its vibrancy in the Canon version. I actually like the first picture more, but, I've been shooting Nikon for a long time. Plus going back and forth to view these is difficult. Side-by-side would have worked better, as gpchase stated.

I don't know how to do the split screen. I agreed on the head tie. I like Nikon better.

You really didn't pick a good shot to experiment with because of the strong color contamination. The right (her right) side of her face and neck have a blue/purple cast reflecting from the headscarf. Her left shoulder has some of this, too. I'm guessing this contamination is reaching further, but it's not clear to the eye without a clean shot to compare it to.

The edited shot is warmer, which masks this a little, but the over-saturation resulted in magenta tones that make her skin look unnatural. You should start with more evenly lit shots before developing a processing regiment for your new Nikon equipment. Btw, I've seen very clean and natural looking skin tones from both Canon and Nikon shooters. I never would have thought that one brand produces different tones from the other. What makes you think this is the case?

I like the Nikon better.

Elan II wrote:
You really didn't pick a good shot to experiment with because of the strong color contamination. The right (her right) side of her face and neck have a blue/purple cast reflecting from the headscarf. Her left shoulder has some of this, too. I'm guessing this contamination is reaching further, but it's not clear to the eye without a clean shot to compare it to.

The edited shot is warmer, which masks this a little, but the over-saturation resulted in magenta tones that make her skin look unnatural. You should start with more evenly lit shots before developing a processing regiment for your new Nikon equipment. Btw, I've seen very clean and natural looking skin tones from both Canon and Nikon shooters. I never would have thought that one brand produces different tones from the other. What makes you think this is the case?





Actually I don't think one is better. I just struggle with D800 files straight from Camera. AWB is a lot better with Canon.

snooked123 wrote:
I like the Nikon better.

Maybe with time I will get use to Nikon.

What way you are using to achieve this? Just curious.

Are you shooting RAW or JPG? If shooting JPG, which Picture Controls are you using?

shmn wrote:
Are you shooting RAW or JPG? If shooting JPG, which Picture Controls are you using?

I shoot RAW only.

Mescalamba wrote:
What way you are using to achieve this? Just curious.

All done in LR4. Just playing around different sliders until I get it to look close to my Canon files. I need to develop a real game plan.

Try these presets for lightroom. They are for Nikon and Canon it may help you get started. I agree with you that the Canon WB is better.

http://lightroomkillertips.com/2012/lightroom-4-camera-calibration-profile-presets/

If you shoot RAW and use Lightroom try PSKISS Cross Camera Profiles
http://pskiss.com/shop/cross-camera-color-profiles/

You can also try DxO Optics Pro 8 Elite. However for 800 RAW files DxO 8 demand that you use 4-Core Processors such as Core i7 4-Cores (CMIIW).

One reason I came to Nikon was the skin tones. I always felt canon was way to saturated and false.

Steve Beck wrote:
One reason I came to Nikon was the skin tones. I always felt canon was way to saturated and false.

+1

RDParker wrote:
Steve Beck wrote:
One reason I came to Nikon was the skin tones. I always felt canon was way to saturated and false.

+1

+2

I do like the right better. It looks richer. The difference is so subtle, I wouldn't have known otherwise. I think the difference may be more pronounced with a caucasian skin tone where the pinks/reds can easily make skin look nasty and incorrect greens make the skin look sickly.

I moved from Canon to get AWAY from their color AND noise. Whatever floats yer boat.