Posted by Paul Gana on September 25, 2008 at 3:52 PM
I actually posted this as sRGB as apposed to AdobeRGB.
I am curious as to why this happened. The leaves were a yellow color at Bear Lake, but when I took the photos they appeared more orange, I used the right white balance, so what could have been going wrong, was it the polarizer that I weas using, it is a Tiffen Polarizer, or is it something else?
I dig it - nice intimate landscape and the leaf color mimics the lichen color. Nicely composed.
Posted by Joshua Hardin on September 25, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Did you shoot this as a RAW file Paul? If so a possible reason for color change could be whatever software you are using for conversion. Polarizer might be a possible reason too, they can affect color temps a little bit depending where the filter is turned if it is a circular one, this is usually somewhat minor though.
Posted by Paul Gana on September 25, 2008 at 5:03 PM
I always shoot RAW, and I use the software that came with the camera (It is a canon) since I don't have any other program that works with RAW
Posted by Joshua Hardin on September 26, 2008 at 11:25 AM
My only guess on the color change cause is if you looked at the shot on your preview screen and the leaves appeared more orange the change occured somewhere in post processing, most likely through the Canon software's interpretation of the RAW file. I haven't used many of Canon's programs, but in Photoshop's CameraRaw program and other applications there is an option to change color temperature, check to see if you can do this with what you have available.
If the leaves appeared less orange from the moment you took the photo, it was probably the polarizer or perhaps a somewhat cool setting on your white balance. It looks like this was a shady situation and shadows tend to appear cooler in photographs than what we see with our eyes, but that should have been compensated for with your white balance selection.
Also, I checked out the file in Photoshop and the image's source profile still seems to be AdobeRGB.
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4 repliesI am curious as to why this happened. The leaves were a yellow color at Bear Lake, but when I took the photos they appeared more orange, I used the right white balance, so what could have been going wrong, was it the polarizer that I weas using, it is a Tiffen Polarizer, or is it something else?
If the leaves appeared less orange from the moment you took the photo, it was probably the polarizer or perhaps a somewhat cool setting on your white balance. It looks like this was a shady situation and shadows tend to appear cooler in photographs than what we see with our eyes, but that should have been compensated for with your white balance selection.
Also, I checked out the file in Photoshop and the image's source profile still seems to be AdobeRGB.