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Was taking some Pics today (as you do) at Somerset Lavender (nice little spot, small lavender fields). In their small gardens they had some Poppies that caught my eye as something to snap. Not something I photo very much, but have had hassle before in the red channel being overexposed. So I watched the histogram quite carefully and all looked good, but they still looked "hot" in the LCD preview. It was only a snap and the Sun was making it difficult to review that well, so I didn't think too much of it till I got back. (Camera 5D3 and 100mm 2.8 L Macro)
Anyway, opening up in Lightroom, OOC, this is what I got:


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The histogram:

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Wasn't really sure how to deal with this, so did a bit of googling, and the suggestion was to adjust Luminance in the Red channel, which gave this:

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It's better, but still posterised somewhat. I guess I'm on the boundaries of my knowledge here - my thoughts were in the first instance it's essentially overexposure in the Red channel (but I'm confused as to the histogram which (I thought) seems to show my compensation brought the Red into an acceptable range. Secondly, I'm rusty with Lightroom and fairly new to LR5. Any thoughts on how I might better approach (more generically) a blow out in a single channel?

Grateful for any suggestions/thoughts/comments.

Simon
 
Simon

Take a look at all your settings in the panel on the right. Ive found that sometimes LR can remember some previous settings that you've adjusted. Something definitely isn't set correctly and I don't think the first photo is due to over exposure.
 
Bingo - I think. Camera Profile was set to Adobe Standard. Switch to Camera Faithful and I get this:


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I can't recall what I have it set to on the PC at home, but I'm currently away from home using my laptop (which I only recently installed LR on). What's the consensus as to what to use? (if that's not a daft question given the above).


Simon
 
Hmmm, I feel a bit of an idiot. Just checking back through some of the Pics I took in Kefalonia in the Spring, there were a lot with Red flowers (and Orange boats) that had a similar problem. They were just holiday snaps, so I just put it down to my inexperience with the Camera and/or the high contrast lighting blowing out the red channel. All were imported using the Adobe Standard camera profile, which looks like it doesn't handle red very well leading to gross oversaturation (same with pinks/oranges. Handling of the sky is much better with the Camera Faithful profile too and seems to give a more natural result with more detail in clouds. For other colours, the results are slightly different, but nowhere near as dramatic a change. Presumably there is a way I can apply the correct profile globally on pictures I've previously imported using the wrong profile?

Thanks for the pointer Buck - had you not said, to check the panel it would have been a while before I'd noticed this I think. The default is not helpful in this case.
 
OK, in case this helps anybody else out - in my reply above I asked about applying that profile to multiple images. There is probably another way, but set the profile on a RAW to what you want, right click, develop settings, copy settings.... Select Calibration (and process) only. Go to Library, choose your folder, select all in grid view, and paste the settings. All images now using the right Camera Profile.
 
You could set this up as a user preset, and apply this on import automatically
 
Yes, I've done this now, but I had a load that were already imported under the wrong camera profile. I guess select all, and apply the user defined import preset would work too. Anyway, my 5DIII now handles Reds much better :)
 
Glad you've got it sorted. I had a similar issue a while back where the green slider in saturation was at something like -67 and I couldn't understand why the pictures looked so washed out :eggface:
 
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