shooting red subjects

When shooting red subjects on color film, the subject looses detail.
For example a red flower may become a red blob, while other items in
the frame will be crip. Why does this happen and how do you prevent
it?

Sorry my friend but this does not happen to me either with film or digital.
The reds are crisp and clear.
"WWeeks" wrote in message
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When shooting red subjects on color film, the subject looses detail.
For example a red flower may become a red blob, while other items in
the frame will be crip. Why does this happen and how do you prevent
it?

Are you shooting with a cheap film? The spectral response
of the film may be weak in the red range. Most of the big
manufacturers post the spectral response of their films as a
graph on their websites. You may want to look the film up.
Kodak, for instance, has its professional color films
designated as NC, VC and UC to designate different color
responses.


Francis A. Miniter


WWeeks wrote:

When shooting red subjects on color film, the subject looses detail.
For example a red flower may become a red blob, while other items in
the frame will be crip. Why does this happen and how do you prevent
it?

with color negs, red was the most transparent color, when it was popular to
shoot double exposures you were usually better off if you placed the red
area over the main subject of the other image, you had a better chance of
not loosing it.

Your metering system may not be seeing the color red as well, giving you a
false reading, it reads the light reflecting off the film and it tends to
have a warm tone.

Your lab may be printing with a color meter that averages the entire scene,
with a close up of a flower, a frame full of one strong color, it still
assumes a neutral gray and tries to balance giving you a weird rendition.

and it could be that you are too close to the subject and it ain't in focus.

When shooting red subjects on color film, the subject looses detail.
For example a red flower may become a red blob, while other items in
the frame will be crip. Why does this happen and how do you prevent
it?