Red Flowers

[gary payne]

<p>Over the past month or so there have been at least three threads here, one of them mine, on the problem of blown out reds in flower close-ups. I'm not trying to re-open that discussion again, but if anyone read through all that and was still confused, Bob Johnson has a great article on his blog:<br>

http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips.html<br>

Hope it helps someone.</p>

[lex_jenkins]

<p>That article seems incomplete. It addresses exposure but not color space. Unless I'm missing something he appears to be suggesting underexposing to avoid the blown red channel, which seems to be a misunderstanding of the actual problem. I don't see how it would solve the problem others have described. Some of the recent discussions here on the Nikon forum did a good job of clarifying the actual problem and the appropriate solution.</p>

[j.art.photo.]

<p>Am I experiencing Déja'Vu?.</p>

[ellis_vener_photography]

<p>Lex is absolutely right : that article doesn't discuss color space choice, bit depth, which camera is used (soem are more sensitive to over saturing reds than others), , how the raw file was processed from the raw format to a TIFf or JPEG photo, and how the camera was profiled in the raw processor used. All of these are major factors in how color is rendered.</p>

<p>Among other things w images do not have bit depth or color space encoded in them. these things are all done in the raw processor you used. Basically he starts from a bad premise and goes from there.</p>

[JDMvW]

<p>I thought the Red Flower was Rosa Luxemburg?</p>

<p>or is it (<a href="

)?</p>

[lex_jenkins]

<p>Here's a link to one of the recent previous discussions on this topic: http://www.photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00V2rX</p>