Focus Stacking (Woo!)

And it also is on my monitor. I think when you take the "this is what a cent is supposed to look like(copper)" out of your mind you will realize the same thing when being subjective about the color. To me it's an orangey/pink color in your photo. Does that make sense?

Or, you could try this:

grab the scroll bar on the right of the page and move it up and down quickly from before the proof photo to after the proof photo. While it's scrolling past think of what color it resembles the most while it is flashing by. I see pink. But of course, maybe it's just my monitor.

My monitors are calibrated and profiled using expensive hardware and software. Well, I ended up using the Open Source calibrating and profiling solution (ArgyllCMS) because it did a better job, but the hardware was still expensive.

I've also created a custom profile for my camera using a MacBeth Colorchecker and the Adobe DNG profile editor. However, it doesn't look significantly different than default Adobe profiles, at least for these colors (it mostly makes a difference for yellow-greens like back-lit vegetation, and really red objects, like a fire truck).

But it doesn't really make that much sense to get too obsessive about color; even if my monitor is accurate, almost noone else's will be.

Yes, but I stayed at a holiday Inn last night. Teehee. Regardless, awesome results. Keep posting those pics of your trials.