I frequently find myself photographing in lighting that is beyond the color correction ability of lightroom, usually because of there being lots of red and yellow colored lights.
I ran into this problem at a dance last night: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157626913661877/ The ideal would be if lightroom just let me push the color correction harder, either by doing a pre-adjustment to one of the color channels, or letting me set it to a color temperature cooler than 2000. But, since I don't have that option, I took the photos from last night, exported them as TIFF, reimported them, and dialed in a bit more color correction: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157627039017446/ I'm not entirely thrilled with the outcome of these photos in particular, but I am pleased by the potential of the technique. I think it will work better in cases where the background doesn't have radically different color balance, and when I go into the shoot planning on using this technique. I'd make my first pass at color correction the same on all of the photos, including one with a grey card, then do the second pass of color correction sampling on the greycard. I suppose that the other option is just not to take pictures in places that has lighting that is quite that wonky. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
