Originally Posted by Far-L

Lots of great tips here... hard to add anything but I do have a white balance trick that I learned from some Playboy folks that I worked on a shoot with years ago.

Instead of using a white card to set your white balance use a pale light blue like the color of a clear sky day in San Diego or a little lighter. It will have the effect of giving a healthy slight amber to skin tones and will not have such a detrimental effect to the rest of the colors as to make them distractingly peculiar.