technical question

thebaz

As you know i was up North yesterday and posted this shot in thread , i like the pic, but find the colours are a bit flat. Seems a problem with the 18 - 200 VR lens .
I was shooting at Apperature mode , maybe the meter works best on Manual .
I am thinking i will shoot from now in either M mode when i have time or P mode , and kick Apperature mode to touch.
Metering was at Matrix.

Here is the image again



any thoughts , can't be my new D300 , i hope

ThOnda

There is wide dynamic range of the scene. So the exposure is set to get the best of the both worlds.
I really do think that the colour saturation was influenced by exposure. Exposure bracketing or histogram should give you some answers.

Saggitarius

You may mix many things what are isn't in connection of this picture.
The Av (aperture) priority mode help you to controlling the depth of field.
Another important information you not given such as RAW mode shooted, which colorur space you set, what you set as colour temperature (auto, daylight etc..)
I couple of minutes and I place my fixed picture here

CabanSail

A, S, or P (or Auto or any of the novelty modes) will not make much of a difference to the saturation or white balance.

It's retouching that is needed.

Saggitarius

Here is the original


Here the reworked


Your picture have a bit more green what need. It's possible you set the color space to Adobe RGB.

thebaz

Thanks Saggitarius , thats so much nicer -- I wouldn't have touched the colour space , and some of the images in the set appeard ok
e.g.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/2659985646/

BTW what did you actually do to improve image ? i plan taking some PS training in September .
so much to learn :eek:

AnimalRights

Nice Sags.

thebaz

its not as good as Sags , but my result by reducing green with color blender

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/2662667730/

elven

Baz, try not to delete pics from flickr and leave the link in thread... makes it confusing for those of us who come along later and can't see the original!

CabanSail

The choice of which Colour Space is only an issue if you are shooting jpeg. In RAW you can decide later which Colour Space you use & change it.

I was using Adobe to process as I thought that bigger was better but have switched back to sRGB after reading a few articles & listening to a couple of lectures on the subject.

thebaz

sorry Evlen -- BTW my colour space is set to default which is sRGB , from reading manual should it not be set to Adobe RGB which offers a wider colour range ?

As i always do a small bit of post processing , and i set ps to adobe rgb .

Cheers.

Paulw

You should always try to use the same colour space in the camera and in PP.

For web usage, you need to use sRGB. Most web browsers will only read that colour space.

For printing, Adobe RGB may be used, but it depends on who is doing the printing.

thebaz

Paulw wrote: »

You should always try to use the same colour space in the camera and in PP.

For web usage, you need to use sRGB. Most web browsers will only read that colour space.

For printing, Adobe RGB may be used, but it depends on who is doing the printing.

thanks Paul - i have reset PS to sRGB (monitor) -- to match camera