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


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- Charles
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"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

"Charles" wrote in message
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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.


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- Charles
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-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.

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Skip Middleton
http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com