Help! Green Shadow Fringe on Portraits

[si465]

Hello,
I'm new here but have been admiring the work posted for a few months now.

Recently bought a 430exii and tried it out at the weekend on my girlfriend, but some of the photo's seem to have a green tone in the shadow border on her skin (her left cheek etc) - it's visible in the RAW file and I've taken a screen capture which is the first pic below.

I appreciate the photo is far from perfect but a) it's straight from the camera and b) I'm still learning!

If I export from Lightroom to JPG then it's visible on my PC, but when uploaded to TP the photo looks better - the bottom photo below.

Can anyone help educate me, either with cause/prevention or PP tips on removing it, and confused how the TP upload changes the image??

Many thanks, Simon

 

[si465]

Oh incase it helps:

1/40s at f6.3, iso 200
49mm using the older kit lens on 350d

 

[Ralphmyster]

Are you bouncing the flash off a wall or something which is making this cast happen, take the same shot in another location and see if its still there.

 

[tdodd]

I can't see any green tinge in either photo. Both look quite normal to me. If there is anything at all then, like Ram says, it might be light bouncing back from a coloured surface, but I really can't see it in these examples.

EDIT : I just noticed the second image appears to be in the Adobe RGB colour space. The first image does not appear to contain that information. For display on the web I recommend you use the sRGB standard for your colour space, not Adobe RGB. In some browsers and other software Adobe RGB files will not be displayed correctly. That may be causing the colour shift you see, and if your monitor is not calibrated accurately you may have further problems judging colour.

Here's a screen print from my system showing both images displayed in IE8 and FF3.6. I would say that the problem is less one of too much green in one of them, but more one of too much orange in the others.....

EDIT AGAIN : Eek! I just opened them both up in Lightroom and now I see the green. The worst example is on her hand. I have no idea why that's there but I would definitely look into your colour space mangement. It seems a good place to start. Make sure you are outputting the file as sRGB.

 

[si465]

Great, thanks for the responses, and for taking the time to open the pic in lightroom.

I'm not too clued up on colorspaces but I remember there's 2 options in the 350d's menu. I think I need to do more fiddling.

As adobe create the lightroom software shouldn't it be able to display my photo correctly? And I assume uploading to TP may change the colourspace somehow?

Thanks again

 

[tdodd]

Unless you have a good reason to be using Adobe RGB (and few people do) then stick with sRGB throughout your workflow. Set the camera to produce sRGB files and make sure that when you exposrt from Lightroom it is also in sRGB format.

Lightroom is good at handling this stuff. I don't know where in your workflow things are going wrong, or even whether colour space "problems" are the issue. Are you using any other software in your workflow or is it straight out of camera into Lightroom and then straight from Lightroom to be used? I've been using Lightroom since release 1.0 and I'm now on LR 3.3. I have never seen this problem with my own files - several tens of thousands of them.