Red values becoming orange

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Wilson Schlamme

Senior Member
Having the strangest thing...regardless of settings or functions or white balance, my reds are coming in as a bit orange looking. Reds become basically a reddish orange. I have no clue how to fix this, I've tried setting white balance manually, everything.
Shooting the same subjects my other cameras are not doing this to red values. I never noticed it until recently when I was taking a picture of a painting predominately red.

Any advice?

Thanks.
 
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mikew_RIP

Senior Member
I cant tell much on my screen from the samples,shooting raw may not solve the problem but could and i stress could give you more chance in PP,the difference you show could be due to the cameras interpretations of its settings and there effect on different sensors,any thing that critical should IMO be shot on raw.
 
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Wilson Schlamme

Senior Member
Thank you for your help mike I can report that shooting raw 100% did the trick. I'm amazed that I haven't always been shooting raw.
What setting would you advise with a d800 for shooting art work?

Just: RAW? or one of the other raw options?

Thanks.
 
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WayneF

Senior Member
Wilson Schlamme said:
Thank you for your help mike I can report that shooting raw 100% did the trick. I'm amazed that I haven't always been shooting raw.
What setting would you advise with a d800 for shooting art work?

Just: RAW? or one of the other raw options?

Thanks.
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Other than basic exposure, there are no Raw options in the camera. :)

Raw is the really good stuff, but one difference is Raw has no settings applied in it, where JPG has Vivid or Contrast or whatever crap that was specified in the camera a few months ago, and long forgotten since. :) We adjust Raw in the Raw editor later, after we can see what it needs.

Also (esp when photographing red subjects, like red flowers) you should always check the histogram for clipping (clipping changes colors). Specifically, it is always NECESSARY to look at the three RGB histograms (each color channel), because the single gray histogram is just a mathematical model (not real data) that can not show clipping properly.

See Two types of Histograms
 
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BackdoorArts

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
When you see Nikon vs. Canon "Shoot Outs" there will often be comments regarding the relative temperature of certain colors. One camera might do better landscapes while another nails flesh tones better. All this pertains to the jpeg interpretation of the image, which is very important for some types of photography - particularly where you need to get the photo out into the ether almost immediately (i.e. news). There are ways of nailing a white balance in-camera in situations like this using various tools and custom WB profiles for a particular lighting situation, but if you're shooting RAW you can usually adjust rather quickly.

FWIW, the lighting in the two example photos seems rather different. Could be differences in on-camera flash, but different is different.
 
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