Originally Posted by jks_photo
If by direct sunlight, you are referring to overhead bluish Sunlight in the afternoon, then you could adjust your White Balance to the Daylight setting and this should warm up the skin tones a bit. The cloudy setting will warm up the skin tones a little bit more (more red).
The Auto WB uses reflected light which can fool the Auto WB setting, as opposed to direct light on your subject, so sometimes you have to tell the camera what the correct WB should be. The more expensive Bodies generally have better Auto WB, but they can be fooled too, especially with green grass, blue water, sand or snow.
The other thing you could do is shoot in RAW and then adjust the WB in post.
A more advanced technique is to use a Custom WB with an Expodisc for direct light at the lens position, or a Gray card at the reflective subject position. The idea here is that the gray card is a standard 18% gray and it wont fool the camera into what it thinks it sees via non-standarized reflected light.
Nice Shot Justin, and welcome to the forums, I have already enjoyed your informative posts and input here!
Rich
Reply With Quote