My NLP scans often come out with a subtle blue cast in the shadows of my skin tones. You can see it in this picture on her cheekbones under her eyes, in the center of her forehead, and parts of her collarbone.
Sometimes I can fix it by using the color sliders (mostly adding yellow/red in highs and mids) but with some photos — like this one — I have the sliders cranked way over already and I can’t do much more without affecting the colors in the rest of the image.
As for my scanning setup, I’m using a CS-Lite in a dim room, using a Sony A7 III + 90/2.8 macro. I’ve played around with the different color temps from the CS-Lite but not sure it makes a difference. Using “NLP standard”.
It’s not in the shadows from NLP’s perspective. They are still mid and high tones objectively. I mean that it’s in the areas where the subject’s skin is in “shadow”. See reference image
Can you be sure that this isn’t just how the film has recorded it, it looks pretty subtle to me? You say yourself that these are in shadow, meaning that they are not in full direct sunlight, and it looks as if there might be lot of blue sky up there to reflect.
Possibly, but when I’ve compared my NLP scans to lab scans of the same negatives the lab scan doesn’t have the same tint. I know it’s subtle but I think it has the effect of making the skin look a little clammy and unnatural and either way hoping to figure out how to avoid it.
Thanks, I wasn’t meaning to imply that it shouldn’t be significant to you. If it’s not on the lab scan then I suppose that can’t be the reason it’s appearing on your NLP conversion.
