The enemy of most night on an airport ramp!
Nothing is worse than shooting on a ramp with tungsten lighting. It throws off your white balance. You can use the white balance preset for tungsten in camera RAW, but it still leaves that nasty orange glow. You can cool the image off, but then you have a blue color cast. You can also turn down the orange and red channels, but that is global, and painting back areas can be very cumbersome.
Below is a shot I took last night in Houston with the before tungsten light, right out the camera, unedited. The right image is after the complete workflow I also included a YouTube video link at the bottom with the complete workflow. It has no sound, as I used QuickTime just to record my screen. Note at 1:35 is where I use a nifty tool.
After adding a saturation layer, I click on the little hand icon with the two arrows. That will give you a color sampler tool. Click on the image where the colors are tungsten. While holding your clicker down, drag your mouse to the left to reduce the saturation only in that color channel. It's super simple, but often overlooked. I then take a black brush and paint back the red strobes, because they were affected. Enjoy!
-Tim LaBranche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABB6KDPHpyA
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