Did you check the red channel on the camera histogram? I've noticed similar concerns while shooting red wing blackbirds & tend to bias away from the highlight side to bring the reds under control.
Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f ----- Original Message ----- From: "David J Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Photographing red flower and plants, problems. > http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v408/divad_b/?action=view¤t=red-flower-0125.jpg > > Here is an example of what i get from a red flower. > > The reds look way over saturated, the middle of the flower is a peach > colour, but you can barely see that colour at all. > > I get this alot with red tulips and sometimes red flowers on a christmas > catus. > > Dave > > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 3:46 PM, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> noted: >>> In the days of film it was well-known that blue flowers would often >>> photograph with a magenta cast. I don't remember the reason, but >>> perhaps something similar holds these days on digital sensors for red >>> - at the opposite end of the spectrum. >> >> Google "anomalous reflectance" -- IIRC, morning glories are the worst >> culprits; some modern fabric dyes do it too. That was the first thing >> I thought of when I saw the subject line, but the complaint seemed to >> be more about focus than colour-shift, so I left that out of my reply. >> >> Then again, if the camera picks up IR and the flowers fluouresce in IR, >> that would explain "muddled colours" _and_ the softness ... I think? >> >> -- Glenn -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
