>>3730271 (me)Crop to show the face in detail. A big part of good colors is underexposing such that no color is clipped.
With Canon sensors it's better not to underexpose too much, the photos can't be easily exposed post exposure, but on the other hand light clipping can be worked out well, with newer sensors even more so. With Sony sensors you better underexpose strictly, here pushing photos in software is no problem at all.
Sony cameras have a very strong saturation in the depths and highlights, which can be a problem if one channel is overexposed, because the other channels then don't receive adequate compensation noticeably. Skin tones are simply too dark, render often not homogeneous in the palette, even though impurities were hardly noticeable to the naked eye. So the main part of my preset is to decrease saturation in the depths and highlights, especially to push skin tone luminosity, orange, some red and some yellow, to attenuate the opposite side in the color circle. Some rather minor hue and saturation adjustments are applied, camera calibration too.
If you look at the image related again, here the skin was not specially treated, there was no local touch up, no repairs nor any beauty retouching beside the aforementioned global color adjustments.
For Canon files I have a similar preset to get pretty close to things rendered from DPP (their raw converter). I started with this and had a hard time, then found it rather easy to adapt this to the Sony A7 III.
Go play with your raw converter more, /p/!
