Accurate Color

I'm a bit color impaired, but my girlfirend and I agree that the flower shots in our little makeshift close up studio are showing more orange than the pink that our subject, a gerber daisy, should be. We're using her Canon 5D with a 100mm Canon macro lens, plus two studio strobes. I have diffused the strobes with white nylon, and we made sure we turned off the flourescent lights before we took our shots.

I tried using the White balance bracketing function, plus tried altering the color temp in the camera menu. It doesn't seem to matter if we change the exposure, we still get orange. It's orange in the LCD, and orange when we look at it in the Canon Zoom Browser.

Any suggestions?

I'm going to try my camera, a Canon 300D, to see if the sensor in the 5D is the problem...

Could you post an example shot that contains your exif? And, if you could turn Image Editing On in your User Control Panel some of us could see if we could come up with a satisfactory adjustment for you. It sounds like your WB/Color tones are just off a bit, so be sure to include those values in a post!

Just shoot a neutral grey card under the same lighting conditions. Shoot raw. In Lightroom/DPP/ACR, use the shot of the grey card to set the white balance. Apply that setting to the other shots.

In a strobe situation, I doubt the fluorescent lights would make a difference anyway.

egordon99 wrote in post #10197448
Just shoot a neutral grey card under the same lighting conditions. Shoot raw. In Lightroom/DPP/ACR, use the shot of the grey card to set the white balance. Apply that setting to the other shots.

In a strobe situation, I doubt the fluorescent lights would make a difference anyway.

+1.

Only way to guarantee colour accuracy.

Also ensure your monitor is calibrated to ensure that what you see is what is actually there - there can be huge differences between monitors!