I'm doing product shots for my wife's eBay sideline.
The problem I'm having is that I will take multiple shots of an item, and despite my best intentions the color will be slightly different in each shot (enough so that when placed side-by-side on a web page, it's clearly and amateurishly different).
Here's some details about what I'm doing:
- I'm usually shooting in front of a large window so it's mostly natural light. Sometimes I'll use an overhead flash, but if I do, I do so for all shots. It's not like some shots include flash and some don't. So the lighting should be consistent.
- I'm usually shooting against a full white background (or full black)
- My white balance is set to Auto
- My exposure is manual
- I'll usually try to start the shoot with a shot of a gray card. Then in Lightroom, I'll set the white balance for that shot by sampling the gray, and then copy/paste that white balance develop setting to all other shots.
So other than perhaps the Auto WB setting, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong in the shooting to get different colors.
But that aside, this seems like something that should be fixable in LR, but despite copying the WB setting, I can't figure that out either.
What I would really like to be able to do is use the eyedropper tool on Image 1, then sample what should be the same color (but isn't) on Image 2 and say "LR, do whatever you need to in order to make the sampled color in Image 2 the same color as the sampled color in Image 1".