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[daq7]

Man, trying to do some self portraits this afternoon. Just disastrous. Of course I am trying to do HDR, but I had to choose between bland and ugly. I prefer ugly but not enough to prevent me from deleting them all. I really need to get some soft white lights. The entire problem was the light I was getting in them. Face too red and too much in shadow, because I did not have the right color light to pull out some of my more flattering skin tones. Not that i have that many. Can't afford to lose them in yellow and red light.

[Frog]

Are you sure its not a white balance problem?

[daq7]

Frog, it could be, but I don't think it is that easy. I tried messing around with WB and just could not save it. I am pretty sure it is a "did not have a powerful enough forelight of the right color on my face" problem. But I am not certain.

[n8]

In my limited experimenting, people don't fare so well in hdr. you may want to try the exposure fusion mode in photomatix (if that's what you're using) rather then the tone mapping.