Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the idea Henning, The shot has got me hooked enough to try all sorts of ideas on it, including yours (I must dig out some old signal processing ideas from the world of geophysics). The main problem is that the "blown" red is precisely the colour I remember the poppies were in real life, shifting the saturation makes it "feel" wrong:-) Cheers Douglas On 16.07.2011 22:59, Henning Wulff wrote: > The red channel is probably overexposed, and blown. In LR, you have to > reduce the saturation in the red channel. Best is to use the colour picker > in the Color panel, and drag down on the colour you want to desaturate. > > Converting the colour space can aggravate the problem, especially if you > are converting into sRGB. > > > On 2011-07-16, at 10:18 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > >> Thanks to all for the constructive comments, >> >> I put them into practice: >> >> 1) I recalibrated my monitor with a Spyder 2.0 and started over again >> from RAW in LR >> >> 2) Converted to jpeg in LR as usual for the LUG Gallery (highest quality) >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/album150/Recalibrated_Monitor_Centre.jpg.html >> >> Still no detail! >> >> 3) converted to tiff in LR - the detail I could see in lower petal of the >> middle flower in the original RAW image is still there >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/album150/Recalibrated_Monitor_Crop.TIF.html >> >> Looks like the problem of what looks like over-saturation and loss of >> detail is a format conversion problem >> >> Cheers >> Douglas >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Henning Wulff > henningw at archiphoto.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >