On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > 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.
Sometimes you just don't have a choice about the light. The woman wanted me to get photos of her fishnets, right then and there. I grabbed my camera out of the car and did what I could. Sometimes I get to work with the light, sometimes I have to fight in into submission. I suppose I could have grabbed the flash as well, but that would have been even more work. I didn't expect it to correct nearly as well as it did. > > 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. -- 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.
