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andrewzarian
10-28-2012, 05:07 PM
I am looking for some Lighting advice or some sort of color correction to the problem I am having. I got a Canon HF G10 yesterday and its amazing except for the greenish Hue skin tones have in my studio. Has anyone else seen this issue with the Canon HF G10? If so how did you correct it?

TomSinclair
10-28-2012, 06:31 PM
Check the white balance. Page 61 of the manual.

Amnon
10-29-2012, 07:14 AM
Put a red gel on one of your lights.

andrewzarian
10-29-2012, 07:15 AM
Amnon I heard you had the same issue

TomSinclair
10-29-2012, 07:23 AM
Put a red gel on one of your lights.

Or in your hair!

Amnon
10-29-2012, 07:57 AM
Are you using CFL's only? Do you have a fluorescent light in the room somewhere? In the last few weeks - since I got the softboxes with the BIG CFL's - I was told I look pale, I look green etc. and could not adjust to counter it. Adding a 100W incandescent bulb inside one of the boxes, seemed to correct it some. Mike mentioned gel filters to filter out the green, I got on eBay and found a set of gels for $7.00 (red, green, blue, yellow). When I got them I tried them all, and the red one corrected the problem. I taped it to the inside of the diffuser (in the middle, the gels are 12x12). I went on to cover a fluorescent light that I have (hanging from the ceiling upside down so that it just reflects) with more red gels.

andrewzarian
10-29-2012, 09:13 AM
This is the lighting kit that we are using http://www.amazon.com/CowboyStudio-Continuous-Lighting-Kit-Boom/dp/B001T9AGLE/ref=sr_1_11?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1351527168&sr=1-11&keywords=cowboystudio+light+kit

Amnon
10-29-2012, 10:12 AM
I didn't spend that much :-) I got this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/JULIUS-STUDIO-BIG-SOFTBOX-LIGHTING-LIGHT-2400W-STUDIO-BULB-PHOTO-LIGHT-JS103-/160848897844?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%2 6asc%3D11%26meid%3D3087222559449000076%26pid%3D100 011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D2%26sd%3D150913159153%26 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/JULIUS-STUDIO-BIG-SOFTBOX-LIGHTING-LIGHT-2400W-STUDIO-BULB-PHOTO-LIGHT-JS103-/160848897844?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%2 6asc%3D11%26meid%3D3087222559449000076%26pid%3D100 011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D2%26sd%3D150913159153%26)

These are the gels: http://www.ebay.com/itm/110880747804?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

Linuxcooldude
10-30-2012, 09:04 AM
The first thing that came to mind is lighting. Might try taking video outside or at different locations to see if you still have the green hue.

andrewzarian
10-31-2012, 05:28 PM
I have been playing around with the manual white balance and its getting close. Im going to pick up some more Pink gels and see if that helps out some more.