On Jun 25, 2011, at 9:01 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > Larry, > > It looks to me that the lights in the room were colored, weren't they? > If yes, you are fighting windmills.
There is only so much I can do with the light. > If you are shooting in the ambient colored light, - you should expect > photos with the corresponding colors. > Why would you want to change them so that they look as if there was > a day light? Because photos of people under yellow light look like they have jaundice, and it's really pretty ugly. > > Even if those were not colored and there is a difference between s > hooting under tungsten light and under colored lights, > even with the tungsten light, I think it is ok to have some > yellowish-reddish tone. > > If you are still determined to adjust the colors beyond what > WB slider allows, - you can do it in LR via just changing each > color separately ( in the menu that is lower). The camera correction menu? I tried that and wasn't able to get anything that worked. Perhaps I wasn't using it correctly. > > > Igor > > > > Fri Jun 24 17:48:31 EDT 2011 > 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. > > -- > 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.
