Wrong colour on import P/S & L/R

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Hi, need some help please. Am taking a photo of a dark pink rose indoors under window light with a white reflector to fill in, Canon 70D, when I import into P/S CS6 or L/R CC the colour is showing deep red not dark pink. I have nothing ticked to add on import and my screen is calibrated (colourmunki Photo). The monitor was calbrated with the NEC software (Spectraview) before I bought the ColourMunki Photo but I cleared everything out before re-calibration.
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Russ
 
What type of monitor are you using? If your screen is a standard LCD monitor, it may be that the saturated colours you are trying to capture, lie outside the (probably sRGB) gamut of your screen. Have you have shot in raw?
Lots of experts on this forum should be able to suggest other possibilities, but I suggest you need first to advise what settings are used for the camera and what type of monitor you have. Calibration of a standard monitor does not guarantee full colour capture, as saturated colours may be beyond its capabilities.
 
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BrynBoru said:
What type of monitor are you using? If your screen is a standard LCD monitor, it may be that the saturated colours you are trying to capture, lie outside the (probably sRGB) gamut of your screen. Have you have shot in raw?
Lots of experts on this forum should be able to suggest other possibilities, but I suggest you need first to advise what settings are used for the camera and what type of monitor you have. Calibration of a standard monitor does not guarantee full colour capture, as saturated colours may be beyond its capabilities.
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Thanks for the reply. NEC monitor, RAW always,
 
Can you dial out the error with the develop module controls? It may be also down to the cameras response. It possible the chip and the software to debayer / demosaicing may be throwing up errors. I had this problem a few years ago in certain circumstances with a 1Dslll. One option was to make a custom profile using Adobe's DNG profiling tool. Not as difficult as it seems but you do need a Macbeth colour chart
 
First, examine camera technique - are you metering correctly, and how is the white balance being set?
 
OK Many thanks, I re-installed and calibrated the monitor again useing the NEC Spectraview II software and the colours are as they should be.
Amazing how the simple things make life so easy:banana:
 
russellsnr said:
OK Many thanks, I re-installed and calibrated the monitor again useing the NEC Spectraview II software and the colours are as they should be.
Amazing how the simple things make life so easy:banana:
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Congratulations!
 
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