To much red in sunset photos
Sep 12, 2012 10:03:20 #
docrob wrote:
no clue - keep shooting - don't blame the camera and don't blame your self either....
CWhite wrote:
Took some photos of the sunset tonight and no matter what the settings they all came out very red. Some were AV mode and others were manuel. I used just about every WB setting I had. This was about the best. ISO 800, f22, 1/100. The second pic was ISO 200, f13, 1/400. How do you get less red and more of the blue? Thanks.
no clue - keep shooting - don't blame the camera and don't blame your self either....
Thanks. No blame - just learning :-)
Sep 12, 2012 10:46:26 #
Just last night in my camera club, the lesson was on camera/lens basics (guest judge/presenter) He suggested, for sunrise/sunset pics to use "Cloudy" for the WB. My Sony A330 has a "sunset" setting on the left dial...seems to work pretty good job. Perhaps you could also try a CPL... Might have to adjust the shutter speed though.
Sep 12, 2012 11:53:57 #
They are both striking shots! Not having seen where the blue was it's hard to judge where to make the changes. Here is an attempt to introducing some blue. I used curves, saturation, contrast and brightness in CS5.
Sep 12, 2012 11:58:12 #
Wendy2 wrote:
They are both striking shots! Not having seen where the blue was it's hard to judge where to make the changes. Here is an attempt to introducing some blue. I used curves, saturation, contrast and brightness in CS5.
That is really cool. Not what I was looking for but really neat. Made the picture "pop" a little more. Thanks.
Sep 12, 2012 11:59:40 #
CWhite wrote:
That is really cool. Not what I was looking for but really neat. Made the picture "pop" a little more. Thanks.
Wendy2 wrote:
They are both striking shots! Not having seen where the blue was it's hard to judge where to make the changes. Here is an attempt to introducing some blue. I used curves, saturation, contrast and brightness in CS5.
That is really cool. Not what I was looking for but really neat. Made the picture "pop" a little more. Thanks.
Thanks! Can you explain where the blue was? Was it generally blue or did it have patches of blue? Was all of it just too red?
Sep 12, 2012 12:50:28 #
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Sep 12, 2012 13:02:15 #
Wendy2 wrote:
quote=CWhite quote=Wendy2 They are both striking... (show quote)
All of the greyish areas were actually a light blue sky. The clouds were all pink to red with yellow highlights. Hopefully I'm explaining this right. Your picture is beautiful.
Sep 12, 2012 13:15:16 #
OldBobD
Loc: Ohio
Maybe what you got was what was actually there. Our brains have a wonderful ability to handle white balance and exposure problems. If you want to make it something other than what it actually was, you're going to have problems adding blue that was never there. Good luck.
Sep 12, 2012 13:37:16 #
CWhite wrote:
quote=Wendy2 quote=CWhite quote=Wendy2 They are... (show quote)
Here are 3 more attempts.
Sep 12, 2012 13:37:32 #
I do not know how to assure you get the colors you want in the original image but your post posed a challenge to me to see what I could do with it in Photoshop. I used curves but chose red and blue channels to work on only. I also divided the image into an upper portion and lower portion overlapping the two on separate layers and then did a few minor tweeks in levels then blended. I didn't mess with the yellows. I hope that this better represents what you saw?
Sep 12, 2012 14:41:36 #
I wasn't there to see your lovely sky, but this is what I saw in my minds eye. Used only hue/saturation layer and only tweaked the master settings in CS5. It appears to me that if your camera has a "vivid" mode for color, you may have had it set to that instead of normal.
Sep 12, 2012 16:21:14 #
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Sep 12, 2012 21:02:56 #
Thanks everyone. It was neat to see what everyone tried in photoshop programs. Makes me want to get a program for myself. As far as "out of the camera" I will continue to play and learn and see what happens. :D
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