Why the skin tone is so difficult to get right?

Hello

Sorry if this isn't the right forum for this question, but I had to ask. If there is something miss me the photography of the film is its ability to produce a beautiful real-looking skin tones. With digital, I find that only the best high-end cameras offer something acceptable. I use a Canon 5 d Mark II and I am satisfied in this regard, but when I look at the pictures taken with cameras less, the results are catastrophic. Why is this?

Thank you

Juan dent

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Boy who is dyed extraordinary!  The spirit of sharing your secret? What camera did you use? Did you shoot raw? You use a custom in-camera WB? What raw conversion - do you use a profile based on ColorChecker (either using DNG Profile Editor or Colorchecker Passport)?

Thanks for sharing this picture!

Juan

It was a JPEG off-camera of my small Canon S3IS.

However, he has changed the settings - contrast - 2, -2 sharpness, saturation - 1 and green - 1 (0 is the default value, -2 is the minimum setting available).  I think the default settings are more to receive a lot of 'pop' or contrast + saturated colors and which tends to spoil the tones a little if you're not careful.

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