Blown reds!
Jan 28, 2017 18:13:16 #
I shoot with the D610. I am having a time trying to take photos of cardinals without blowing out the red colors. Here is a photo, shot in raw, but taken right out of the camera with zero post processing, except for the fact that I did crop for a better perspective. I used my Nikkor 200-50 mm lens, i/400 sec, f5.6, focal length 500 mm, ISO 1250, aperture priority, spot metering (I metered off the green pine background). As you can see, the picture seems to be on decent focus and exposure, but the reds are totally blown. What am I doing wrong?
Jan 28, 2017 18:18:59 #
jradose wrote:
I shoot with the D610. I am having a time trying t... (show quote)
If you spot meter, expect other areas to be under or over exposed. In this case, why did you not meter the red?
Jan 28, 2017 18:20:05 #
Fred Harwood wrote:
If you spot meter, expect other areas to be under or over exposed. In this case, why did you not meter the red?
I have taken shots where i have metered the red, same results.
Jan 28, 2017 18:29:31 #
jradose wrote:
I have taken shots where i have metered the red, same results.
Depending upon diet, the red feathers of cardinals can be saturated red. Your camera may be just agreeing with the color?
Others may have more.
Jan 28, 2017 18:48:43 #
Jan 28, 2017 19:16:44 #
jradose wrote:
I shoot with the D610. I am having a time trying t... (show quote)
Red are not blown. All the feather details are there. If you want a less warm (Nikon is notorious for that) just tone it done in PP.
If you shot raw, you are in an even better position to correct this.
Jan 28, 2017 19:17:59 #
thousands of online discussions about this
try underexposing in camera, or use hsl to selectively desaturate the reds in post
try underexposing in camera, or use hsl to selectively desaturate the reds in post
Jan 28, 2017 19:30:36 #
Vivid reds are often a problem. What sometimes works for me: intentional underexposure (just enough to keep the red highlights from clipping), then bring up exposure to desired level later in editing, but excluding the most vivid sections of red so that they do not blow out.
Jan 28, 2017 19:47:23 #
tsilva wrote:
thousands of online discussions about this
try underexposing in camera, or use hsl to selectively desaturate the reds in post
try underexposing in camera, or use hsl to selectively desaturate the reds in post
please tell me, what is "hsl?"
Jan 28, 2017 20:18:15 #
Jan 28, 2017 22:25:38 #
jradose wrote:
please tell me, what is "hsl?"
hue saturation and luminance - it is a section in the Develop module in Lightroom, and a tab in Adobe Camera Raw. and other software packages have some semblance of a way to individually adjust red, orange, yellow, green, aqua, blue, purple and magenta for these three qualities.
Oh, and the reds on the cardinal are fine. As others have said, shoot raw and you'll have more dynamic range and headroom if you need it.
Jan 29, 2017 06:24:48 #
jradose wrote:
I shoot with the D610. I am having a time trying t... (show quote)
When I first read the title of your post I was looking for red cast everywhere in your image , a problem I had when I first stared using a Nikon D70 digital. if there was any red in the image mainly skin tone would havee a red cast Big time) a minor adjustment in the camera set-up cured this. Since the D70 I have made this adjustment in all my Nikons D300, D7100, D800 and D810
From what I see the reds are not blown out, the color is great the definition in the feathers is sharp, I can't / don't see what you are talking about. Why did you meter the background instead of the Cardinal?
Could your problem be in you monitor calibration? Finally No image SOC in raw will have "proper/perfect" color, you have to make some minor adjustments , that's the way it works for me
Jan 29, 2017 07:45:32 #
Jan 29, 2017 07:52:18 #
jradose wrote:
I shoot with the D610. I am having a time trying t... (show quote)
Raw needs processing to look good. How do JPEGS look?
Jan 29, 2017 07:54:21 #
mborn wrote:
To my eyes, the cardinal looks fine
This site doesn't post raw, so we're not actually seeing the raw image.
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