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KeithandAbby

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Just bought a D7200 today and my Daughter shot some basketball with it. We used the same settings we were using with the D90 and the camera gave us terribly orange skintone.

Any Thoughts? Auto white balance, matrix metering.

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EXIF shows today as Jan 27, 2015! Is that really today? My today is May 4, 2019.

And the colors do not appear overly orange on my laptop monitor. FWIW
 
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Now that one may be.
 
Oh - Exif shows that date because we just got the camera today. Didn't even have time to set it up.

Any idea why we got the orange hue? Only thing I can think of is matrix metering. Always seemed to work on the D90...
 
Someone will be along more capable than I. I do not have a D90, nor have I had one, and what little EXIF I can see (others manage to see more), lighting shows tungsten (makes sense) and WB is manual. So something in the WB is my guess. I suspect the cameras are quite different so settings in one may not really match the other.
 
Auto White Balance is probably the culprit here. From one generation to the next you really can’t rely on the same settings to work. Shooting in arenas, stadiums, stage/runway I dial my color temperature in manually, auto white balance rarely gets it right.
 
KeithandAbby said:
Just bought a D7200 today and my Daughter shot some basketball with it. We used the same settings we were using with the D90 and the camera gave us terribly orange skintone.

Any Thoughts? Auto white balance, matrix metering.
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The EXIF says "White Balance - Manual", shot in RAW and processed with Raw Therapee.
I've never used Raw Therapee, but I would assume you can adjust the WB to better suit the lighting at the basketball court.

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Carl Maiorino said:
Auto White Balance is probably the culprit here. From one generation to the next you really can’t rely on the same settings to work. Shooting in arenas, stadiums, stage/runway I dial my color temperature in manually, auto white balance rarely gets it right.
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KeithandAbby,

There is a setting in the white balance for Mercury Vapor lights. Go to the shooting menu (camera icon). Arrow down to White Balance. In that menu, Florescent Lights is one of the options, go into that and find Mercury Vapor. This should adjust pretty close for you to remove most of the orange cast. At least it will be close enough to be able to do final fine tuning in post processing.

I've found the auto white balance on my D7200 gets tricked up under some florescent lights especially the orange mercury vapor lights at indoor sporting arenas (when my son played indoor soccer I used the above setting and it worked well).

Hope this helps

Jeff
 
My cameras are set to white balance=cloudy (well, it usually is in England!). In post processing of the NEF file I adjust the white balance to make the final image look as I remembered it.
 
If you go into the White Balance menu you should see a selection ‘Choose Color Temperature’ (don’t have the camera in front of me so my wording might be off). You can then set the balance by dialing in the temperature of the light. Not sure the type of light were being used but I’m guessing 3800-4000 would be a good starting point.

Alternatively, you could get a gray or white card and do a custom white balance off that...just make sure the light hitting the card is the same as what is hitting your subject.
 
It sounds like you have this resolved.

Hoever, FWIW: For the second image, ExifTool shows the White Balance as Incandescent, and processed in RawTherapee, JPEG Compression. The first image shows Auto1, software as Ver.1.0.4 (?), and Uncompressed.

Enjoy the D7200. If it wasn't for getting old syndrome, it would be my primary carry camera.
 
JustGeorge said:
It sounds like you have this resolved.

Hoever, FWIW: For the second image, ExifTool shows the White Balance as Incandescent, and processed in RawTherapee, JPEG Compression. The first image shows Auto1, software as Ver.1.0.4 (?), and Uncompressed.

Enjoy the D7200. If it wasn't for getting old syndrome, it would be my primary carry camera.
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For the orange image, I had been trying to 'tweek' it in RawTherepee before posting. In the gym, I originally shot in auto but the result was the orange. I then stupidly switched to one of the WB pre-sets and it looked like it was working when we reviewed the image on the back of the camera. When I reviewed the pictures later, I was getting far too much blue (it overcompensated). To post the shot of what auto WB was getting, I selected "auto" WB on RawTherepee and it re-converted it back to what we were seeing in the gym.

Most of the pictures in the game were salvageable - I merely used the spot WB tool in RawTherepee and clicked it onto a white spot on the team's uniform (thank goodness they were in white!). Still, pre-setting the WB was a major saving grace and a huge time-saver so I'm glad I ran into the problem. Knowing that I can pre-set WB in advance takes a lot of stress out of taking photos in crappy-lit gyms going forward.
 
What about those lens caps with the white translucent center? That would save having to carry around a white card.
 
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