How would you process this shot?

wow that is amazing i love the edited work you guys have done. That is really good.

Sometimes a shot just cannot be fixed in PP. This is one such example. With the different colored lights it is impossible to correct IMO. You could use the colors to create a funky effect I suppose but as part of the OPs question related to WB, I have to say that this is a shot where, if I needed it for some reason. I would reshoot.

Obviously the skin can be improved and the last example looks the best to me.

I played around with the jpeg for a few minutes. A good bit more could be done to improve it.

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davie rogue wrote in post #11478074

I took it back to daylight by cooling the white balance and also moved towards a slight green tint to balance out the red/purple cast that was going on. I killed the blue (just wasn't my taste and was creating some funky balance in spots). Increased the orange channel slightly for skin warmth that was lost when I tweaked WB and tint. Did a proper retouch on her skin... unfortunately I don't think the other examples in this thread are very good at all. It's important to retain texture and shape.

Not really much more required for this shot

Honestly I think that's the worst so far, skin looks oily and IMO, too much texture to it. I had to remove my edit from my harddrive otherwise I'd repost it.

SnapShot Photos wrote in post #11499200
Honestly I think that's the worst so far, skin looks oily and IMO, too much texture to it. I had to remove my edit from my harddrive otherwise I'd repost it.

It's oily looking because of the makeup and poor lighting setup, and all I did was leave texture that was already there. It's not like I added a texture layer

IMO, any skin retouching that includes surface blur is trash

davie rogue wrote in post #11520491
IMO, any skin retouching that includes surface blur is trash

Not necessarily true I am afraid. I agree that surface blur on its own destroys an image, but high end retouching often uses "frequency separation" which involves blur and high pass (or something closely related).

Mathematically the correct combination of Gaussian blur and High pass leaves the image unchanged. This allows you to work on the high frequencies (high pass layer) and low frequencies (blurred layer) separately.

davie rogue wrote in post #11520491
It's oily looking because of the makeup and poor lighting setup, and all I did was leave texture that was already there. It's not like I added a texture layer

IMO, any skin retouching that includes surface blur is trash

I only had 15 minutes but I did a quick edit using my "blur" technique with your original edit..tell me, did I make it look like trash?