Colour problems under studio lights with ist D

Recently I have been doing a lot of sports teams and high school balls using my ist D and studio lights. The files have been very yellow on the skin tones. The lab suggested setting the contrast and saturation to the lowest setting on the menu.

When I shoot in daylight or use a Metz flash i don't have this problem.
Has anyone had this experience? Any suggestions?

Thanks

Colin

It depends upon the colour temperature of the lights. If they are tungsten lights, set the White Balance to tungsten and see if this is OK. If not, follow the procedure in the camera manual for setting a custom white balance and that should sort it out.

There is a flash setting as well, but AWB (auto white balance) will probably sort that out just fine anyway, which is why you are finding no problem with your outdoor shooting.

Let us know how you get on!

1. Buy a gray card.

2. Set it under your typical studio lighting situation.

3. Create a custom white balance for your studio, name it, and save it.

4. Remember to use it when shooting with those particular lights.

Colin,

I use halogen studio lighting with my istD - and the best results are obtained, as already suggested, by manually setting the white balance.

A nifty aid to doing this is Lastolite's ezbalance card - its really an elasticated reflector type thing that folds up into a 4" circle - very handy for keeping in the camera bag and with a white on one side and 18% grey on the other you can get WB setting as well as exposure!

The other thing I do is shoot RAW, so that the WB can be adjusted (rescued?) later, in the 'computer dark-room' (!)