On 18/05/2010, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > I was asked to do some photo sessions at a party this weekend. > I tried to take care not to blow out the red channel when I was setting the > exposure, but when I looked at the photos in LR on my mac the reds seemed > somewhat orangey, and the dayglow pink and the dayglow orange had lost a lot > of their "pop" and their saturation. > > Was this a case of my misreading the histogram, or the histogram being based > on JPEG and not RAW so it wasn't really showing the red channel blowing out? > In future situations, should I leave more headroom in the exposure?
Try not to saturate as always when shooting "dayglow" type colours but don't expect anything but an approximation of their appearance in post processed images. Firstly I'm not sure if the colours actually fit in the gamut of the camera but even if they did then they would need to be compressed in order to fit into the gamut of the monitor. How the CMS on the target system manages this I'm not sure, I would expect that it would apply a perceptual rendering intent. Most likely it's best to experiment with different rendering intents when converting the image to sRGB for display with this type of material. I have shot work gear for an on-line catalogue in the past and it came out quite well, can't recall the particular work flow unfortunately. Cheers, -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
