Colour cast on studio images - help please

[Tiptopphotography]

Hi

This image was taken in my studio using the following set up:

2 x interfit 300 soft boxes on white background
1 x interfit 300 as model light

ISO 100
Canon 400D
White balance - flash
125/F11
Centre weighted exposure
Canon 50mm/1.8 (nifty fifty)
On board camera - picture style = portrait

As you can see there is a slight red colour cast to the image - I am really struggling to get consistently good skin tones and colour balance but cannot think of what other settings I could try to achieve this - at the moment I am shooting in raw to be able to correct this post processing but I know that I should be able to achieve the right tones, colour, saturation etc without too much pp.

Any help or suggestions would be apprecaited.

Please note this images has not had any post processing at all... this is straight from the memory card.

Thanks,
TipTop

[FlyingPhotog]

Hi and welcome to POTN...

I'd suggest you get a neutral target to shoot either before, during or after your session (under the same lighting) so you have a reference for setting your white balance.

A grey card, a WhiBal, a Lastolite Target or a Greytag Macbeth Color Checker
http://www.rmimaging.com/information/colorchecker.html

Also, is your monitor hardware calibrated?

[Tiptopphotography]

My monitor is not calibrated... if its not a silly question... how does the image look on your screen? do you see a cast?

[FlyingPhotog]

My monitor is not calibrated... if its not a silly question... how does the image look on your screen? do you see a cast?

Yes, the image is quite pink and florid looking on my calibrated monitor.

[Tiptopphotography]

Thanks, i'll look into the monitor calibration - i'd apprecaite other comments too from anyone else reading.

[Tiptopphotography]

Can anyone esle offer any thoughts on this as I have another shoot tomorrow PM and would really like to try something new!

Thanks everyone

[freebird]

Dont shoot Picture style? Shoot manual .

[XterraJohn]

Try resetting your camera to a default picture mode, such as "standard" for "faithful" and then, similar to posted above, shooting in either, P, Av, Tv, or M. I thought that my pictures had a weird skin-color cast, and it seemed to be just because I had been messing with the saturation slider in one of the menus.