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Intense Colors, Canon D-Rebel
New to this camera, I have shot a few pictures so far.
In some of them the color comes out really intense, almost electric looking. I'm using pretty much default settings. EXIF says Contrast +1, Sharpness +1, Color Saturation +1, sRGB. Everything else looks normal. I was using the EF 100 Macro with a polarizer, but still... any ideas? Anywhere I could post a full size/rez picture for people to look at? thanks -- - Charles - -does not play well with others |
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Intense Colors, Canon D-Rebel
"Charles" wrote: New to this camera, I have shot a few pictures so far. In some of them the color comes out really intense, almost electric looking. I'm using pretty much default settings. EXIF says Contrast +1, Sharpness +1, Color Saturation +1, sRGB. Everything else looks normal. I was using the EF 100 Macro with a polarizer, but still... Those settings are pretty extreme. Try setting contrast, sharpness and saturation at their _lowest_ settings and adjust them to taste after the fact on a per-image basis in your favorite image editor. Setting these parameters to higher values loses information that can't be recovered. (Using RAW is best, of course, but if you insist on using JPEG...) Also, if you have strong primary colors, you may be overexposing. The historgram in the camera only shows luminance, so you can't know at exposure time if some primary color in the image was blown. Look at the values of primary color areas in an image with your favorite image editor and see if the values are all around 255 (in 8-bit mode). Reds are real easy to blow out. David J. Littleboy Who doesn't own a 300D. Yet. Tokyo, Japan |
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Intense Colors, Canon D-Rebel
"Charles" wrote in message
... I'll have to learn how to set them. so far I have just been using what I thought were defaults. On one of the pictures in question the blue is around 255 most of the time. It is a pretty picture, electric, but not realistic. Red runs about 150 to 240 in the area of interest, green is anywhere from 50 to 200. I found that I had selected "parameter 1" "The image will have vivid and crisp colors. In the basic Zone modes , all images will be taken this way." they were right. I'll try some other settings tomorrow when it's light. -- - Charles - -does not play well with others Lesson #2, stay away from the Zone modes! ;-) The Creative (aperture priority, shutter priority, program, manual) modes give you more options, like setting your own parameters. Parameter 1 is the default, you may not have selected it, yourself, the camera did. Zone modes, the camera does all of the selections. BTW, the polarizer, depending on type, may have contributing effect on the colors, too. -- Skip Middleton http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com |
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