Bruce echoed my thoughts too. This seems a weird path to normal color. If I were doing this sort of thing, I'd make a couple of shots of a Macbeth Color Checker and use the Passport software to generate a custom camera calibration. Fluorescent lighting always has a peculiar spectral signature.
G On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Explain to me this, Larry. Why go to the trouble of taking a > fluorescent light, already with a green cast, purposely adding a green > gel to it making the scene *very* green, taking shots, then using > post-processing to remove all that at least half intentional > colour-casting? > > Just to see if it can be done? :-) > > Why not simply use straight un-gelled light to begin with? Or if the > gel is there, presumably the colour cast is intended, so why not > render the scene as the participants observed? > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> One of the things that I'm hoping to get out of LR4 is a bit more range in >> adjusting color. I was asked to get some shots tonight under fluorescent >> lights with green gels on them. >> >> This is what one looked like straight out of the camera: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/7063876393/in/photostream >> >> Using auto white balance, which tweaked the slider all of the way to >> magenta, actually got me pretty close, but not quite there: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6917799356/in/photostream >> >> So, I exported it as tiff, reimported it to lightroom, and did another round >> of automatic white balance on it: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6917799600/in/photostream >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
