What does having to make these same two hue/saturation adjustments mean?

Question

I keep having to make the same two yellow adjustments in Lightroom. No matter the subject matter, indoor or outdoor. And no matter the camera body. See the before and after screenshots:
Before: The puppy coats are too yellow (to me), even after eyedroppering the color card. The puppy whites look correct:
After: Yellow Hue -30 -- Yellow Saturation -20.   --The puppy coats now appear correct.to me (the puppy whites are still correct). You can also see what happens to the yellow on the color card --it looks less yellow!?  --I find myself doing this adjustment on at least 80% of all my photos. Probably the only reason I dont do it is when there is no yellow in the shot.
This is in Lightroom V4.3.  This was taken with a Nikon D4, two reflected strobes set up on either side, and with room lighting on, but none of that seems to matter.  I have several other cameras, and light source does not seem to be a factor --once I eyedropper the card everything looks good except the yellows.  The monitor/computer does not seem to matter either.  I see the same problem on both my desktop monitors and laptop, which are calibrated the same (to 6500k=white).  I have ruled out room lighting reflection because this occurs with outdoor shots, and in either case after setting white balance either with a card or an expodisc.
I don't know enough about this subject to say it might be my aging eyes, but I am running out of other things to consider.
That is why I posted this. I guess the first question is can anyone else see what I'm talking about?  If not, that would implicate my eyes.  Why do I have to see incorrect yellow on the the card in order to see correct (in this case) coat colors?    If anyone has any ideas, thanks in advance!

Answer 1

trshaner wrote:
Post some small sRGB profile JPEGs (1200 x 800) here with the LR adjustments you think look best. This is what your clients will see, correct?
Here are a few random examples:  Either they've been used, or they are examples of what the exhibitors/publications will like.
This one seems really close to the accuracy I try for (with varying success).
Here is the "yellow problem" which I didn't even try to fix because it sorta worked with the cloudy day shot,
This shows the reason for cranking the highlights down and the shadows up --to get detail out of both coat colors (which shows off the dogs muscle structure)  This is the most extreme example, a black and white dog on a bright sunny day.
Indoor events have to be available light, upper limit is set to ISO 6400, The lighting can be next to impossible to fix so these are probably not good examples of what you were asking for. Every shot in a 9fps sequence can have a slightly different color even if the house lights look even. I think these are slightly blueish and cannot seem to fix them any better without diminishing returns elsewhere.
1/800 ISO6400 If it's too grainy for hair detail I try to get at least some shadow definition in the black coat.
This one looks either a bit too saturated or about right depending on what screen I see it on.
trshaner wrote:
The yellow adjustment issue with your ColorChecker Passport profiles indicates a problem, since you don't see this with Adobe and Camera Standard profiles. Are you rechecking the White Balance using a ColorChecker image's grayscale patches when you switch to Adobe Standard and other profiles? I use a Develop preset for each of the LR provided camera profiles containing only White Balance and Calibration (i.e. camera profile). The white balance is slightly different from the settings required for the ColorChecker Passport profile, but the same for all of the LR provided profiles (Adobe Standard, Camera Standard, etc.).
Example White Balance Canon 600D:
Profile                                Temp Tint
ColorChecker Passport  5550   +23
Adobe Standard, etc.     5600   +10
Yes, when I check the white balance the whites look good but the yellow persists.  I misspoke earlier --I do see the yellow problem on the standard camera profiles, just not nearly as much.  The other thing I've noticed is that the xrite profiles look too saturated next to the standards. I often have to lower the saturation, or the just the orange saturation (for the dogs).  I cant help but think that is somehow connected to the yellow issue.