Red skin tone issue when shooting rugby

[Taff]

Hopefully someone will be able to help me with this.

When I am shooting rugby in bright light ie no clouds or little clouds I seem to get an issue where the skin color of players starts to look red in the bright light. is this just the camera over exposing the shot or do I need to change settings

I shoot using the following

JPeg - to try and ensure that I can do as little PP to shots for practice
Manual with shutter speed off 1/500 or quicker light depending, f stop wide open
Picture control - Vivid
White Balance - Auto
Color space - Adobe RGB
Active D-Lighting - High
Auto ISO upto max 1600
Metering - Matrix

this image is straight off camera and its more the arm of the ball carrier that shows the issue. The sun is behind me to my right hand side. However when uploaded to Flickr it seems to remove it quite a bit

_DSC9206 by Daz_James_, on Flickr

This is an edited version cropped and auto toned on Lightroom, looks better than on my PC once on Flickr but still a little harsh on his arm.

Cwmbran RFC Vs Caerleon 11-10-2014 Test by Daz_James_, on Flickr

 

[ghoti]

Are you sure that's not just his natural skin tone (or he's sunburnt)? The rest of the players' skin tones look fine to me.

The photo looks a bit overexposed, though. Why are you shooting manual? And why are you shooting wide open at ISO1600 in broad daylight? This will affect picture quality quite badly.

 

[The23rdman]

Are you sure that's not just his natural skin tone (or he's sunburnt)? The rest of the players' skin tones look fine to me.

The photo looks a bit overexposed, though. Why are you shooting manual? And why are you shooting wide open at ISO1600 in broad daylight? This will affect picture quality quite badly.

It's ISO 320 if you cared to jump to Flickr. Looking at the guys ear I'd say that that is sunburn.

 

[ghoti]

It's ISO 320 if you cared to jump to Flickr. Looking at the guys ear I'd say that that is sunburn.

Ah, okay. I was just going by the OP's provided settings.

 

[Gary Coyle]

Theres so many things wrong with your settings i dont know where to start

Turn off Active D Lighting, turn off Vivid picture control and use standard but most important use SRGB as your colour space ot Adobe RGB, most others are wrong but the above will sort out any colour issues youre having

 

[Taff]

Are you sure that's not just his natural skin tone (or he's sunburnt)? The rest of the players' skin tones look fine to me.

The photo looks a bit overexposed, though. Why are you shooting manual? And why are you shooting wide open at ISO1600 in broad daylight? This will affect picture quality quite badly.

It's ISO 320 if you cared to jump to Flickr. Looking at the guys ear I'd say that that is sunburn.

Ah, okay. I was just going by the OP's provided settings.

Sorry meant that it would go to max 1600 if needed not the pic as shot at 1600, I shoot manual because I want to keep the shutter speed at 1/500 and let the iso adjust to achieve it.

Its not just with this player its when the sunlight is hitting the sweat it then looks red, I have changed pic control from vivid as this can cause it to give the red appearance on the skin with a D7000 or so I have just read, however I was asking to make sure it wasn't something I was doing settings wise.

 

[Taff]

Theres so many things wrong with your settings i dont know where to start

Turn off Active D Lighting, turn off Vivid picture control and use standard but most important use SRGB as your colour space ot Adobe RGB, most others are wrong but the above will sort out any colour issues youre having

What other settings are wrong if you don't mind me asking Gary, I have changed the picture control anyway but will turn off Active D Lighting and change to SRGB

 

[The23rdman]

Sorry meant that it would go to max 1600 if needed not the pic as shot at 1600, I shoot manual because I want to keep the shutter speed at 1/500 and let the iso adjust to achieve it.

Its not just with this player its when the sunlight is hitting the sweat it then looks red, I have changed pic control from vivid as this can cause it to give the red appearance on the skin with a D7000 or so I have just read, however I was asking to make sure it wasn't something I was doing settings wise.

Ah, especially with a D7000. I hated the colours on that camera after a while.

 

[Taff]

Ah, especially with a D7000. I hated the colours on that camera after a while.

I don't tend to have too many issues with the colour it was just this one issue when the light was harsh on the skin and I was dumbfounded as to what to do to resolve it. I got the settings off a website that provided them for different photography types for the D7000 and wasn't having too many issues and tweaked them where necessary but I will now try as Gary suggested and hopefully this has resolved it.