Larry, Shooting RAW and using LR2, I find that the Luminance controls are my friends for these colors. Dialing back the luminance does wonders at restoring color fidelity and detail.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Mon, 5/17/10, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > From: Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> > Subject: photographing bright red, dayglo pink and orange > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Date: Monday, May 17, 2010, 4:42 PM > I was asked to do some photo sessions > at a party this weekend. > I tried to take care not to blow out the red channel when I > was setting the exposure, but when I looked at the photos in > LR on my mac the reds seemed somewhat orangey, and the > dayglow pink and the dayglow orange had lost a lot of their > "pop" and their saturation. > > Was this a case of my misreading the histogram, or the > histogram being based on JPEG and not RAW so it wasn't > really showing the red channel blowing out? In future > situations, should I leave more headroom in the exposure? > > Interestingly, on my work PC, the red doesn't seem quite as > orangey as it did at home, but that may be because it's a > 600 pixel wide version rather than a 24" iMac display, > different curves or something: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4613138036/sizes/o/in/set-72157623949690373/ > > In a related issue, I'd like to get a 23" or so vertical > second display for my iMac for working on images in > "portrait" composition. Has anyone recently gone > through the research shopping for one? > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
