Dick, did you use a lot of fill and/or recovery in this image? It shows that typical orange translucency in the skin that you get when you add this too much.
I thought I was going nuts doing so much work on white. Good to see I am not the only one It looks very underexposed, too underexposed to be rescued well.
This was taken in overcast conditions, in a narrow street where all the light was coming from above.
In the unadjusted image in phocus there was little difference in colour between the hair and the forehead.
I could have adjusted the colour temp, but did not.
I had to use recovery on the shirt, and moire for the glasses.
-1.5ev
+10 contrast
83 recovery
100 clarity
By getting back the colour in his face I revealed his less than perfect complexion ( he is a Brit, and not a film star, and would not contemplate using make-up).
I used curves to darken the mid tones (face).
Phocus can miraculously recover very under-exposed (parts of ) images, but that is not a problem here. On some of the picture I took that day I would have to use recovery on the foreheads (my solution for that is to turn the camera upside-down and use fill-flash).
The picture looks rough largely as it is about 1,500 Mpx cropped from a 50Mpx file showing four people 3/4 lemgth. (Remember I posted it to show that you could get an acceptable image from a small crop) Maybe I over-adjusted it... but it is amazing how much adjustment you can get away with in Phocus.
This (below) is about three Mpx cropped from 50Mpx... the ambient light was better there (it was in a more open area, so there was more low fill) and I have made no adjustments. His complexion looks pale on my laptop, but OK on my Eizo (which I have not calibrated yet). Here too, the lower part of the face is lighter than the forehead, and using a fil-flash under the camera might have helped.
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Clive (the gray-haired Gentleman ) is our District Council candidate, and Nadhim Zahawi, on the left, is our (Stratford-upon-Avon) selected parliamentary candidate, as our current Member of parliament, John Maples, is retiring at the next General Election.