On Jun 25, 2011, at 9:00 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > The second pass versions look way over to the magenta to my eye.
I went back and made another pass at them. Part of the problem is that with colored spot lights (little halogen track lights IIRC) the color balance in the room is extremely uneven, and if someone is under a spot, and I color balance on them, and the background is illuminated with the white rope lights, then the background looks way wonky. I think this technique will work a lot better, for example, with stage lighting, when I'm zoomed in tight on the musician and the background doesn't matter as much. > > On 6/24/2011 5:48 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! > > --Marvin the Martian. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
