Why RAW?

[koffiejunkie]

From the look of the mike head it looks like you just so happened to take the shot when the coloured spots were hitting her from either side.

Yep. That was whenever they were on.

I've fixed a pic like this before, and I don't think anything is blown out (as suggested by the histogram). I can't remember whether PS has colour balance, as that would be the way I'd go first.

Thanks, I'll look into that. I'm no good at PS though

I'll give it a bash tomorrow morning (busy making supper at the mo), otherwise just try a simple white balance on the string pins on the guitar.

Thanks. I did the try white balance on the pins - it turns the magenta cast to blue, mostly. Playing with the white balance manually basically alters the colour of the cast, but it doesn't change how it looks.

 

[bwana]

Thanks. I did the try white balance on the pins - it turns the magenta cast to blue, mostly. Playing with the white balance manually basically alters the colour of the cast, but it doesn't change how it looks.

You can basically WB of anything that is white (as long as it's not blown out), grey or black in aperture.

What ISO did you have to shoot that at?

 

[koffiejunkie]

2500, unfortunately, which is probably not helping. I know how the white balance dropper works, but I've found that white sometimes push things too far to the blue side, but that's OK, I can handle it manually most of the time.

 

[bwana]

2500, unfortunately, which is probably not helping. I know how the white balance dropper works, but I've found that white sometimes push things too far to the blue side, but that's OK, I can handle it manually most of the time.

Ok - did you use it on the photo you posted?

 

[koffiejunkie]

Ok - did you use it on the photo you posted?

Yep, then it looked like this:



That's why I said the whitebalance changes the colour of the cast, but not the nature of it.

 

[BigAl-sa]

This is not an easy pic to correct. As Bwana hinted the lights were changing - you can see this from the shadow of her hand and the guitar on her boob - it's a reddish yellow. The biggest problem is that the green channel is severely messed up.

I've tried several of my tricks, and some work in some places then mess up others. The best you can do with this one is to convert it to b&w. Use the channel blender to convert to monochrome with 80% red, 5% green and 15% blue - it gives something that you can use (the red channel on its own is also pretty good).

I don't want to take the colour out completely - it's part of the amosphere. But it would be good if it doesn't look like I took to it with purple paint.

If you're very bored, you can now colorize the pic and paint back the colours

 

[Quantum Theory]

Thought I'd give it a quick try. The Selective Colour adjustment tool was made for this...

Magenta Channel

Cyan -46
Magenta -80
Yellow +6
Black +32

 

[bwana]

Thought I'd give it a quick try. The Selective Colour adjustment tool was made for this…

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Magenta Channel

Cyan -46
Magenta -80
Yellow +6
Black +32

I know she's English but she's probably not that pasty looking

 

[Quantum Theory]

I know she's English but she's probably not that pasty looking

With some more work, I'm sure that could be improved...

 

[koffiejunkie]

I've tried several of my tricks, and some work in some places then mess up others. The best you can do with this one is to convert it to b&w.

Yep, exactly what I saw. I gues a fair part of this show is going to end up in B&W. About half the pics were taken when the heavy colour lights were off, and they came out far nicer. But of course, the nice moments always happen when the light is at its worst...

I know she's English but she's probably not that pasty looking

I nearly fell off my chair laughing. I actually see women looking like that on the street - heavy base and fake tan is a pretty dreadful combination...

No, this one is actually quite fair looking. This was at a different (better lit) show:

 

[Fudzy]

I still don't see what RAW offers that you can't achieve with the level/curve adjustments in Photoshop.

 

[koffiejunkie]

I still don't see what RAW offers that you can't achieve with the level/curve adjustments in Photoshop.

Then keep looking. One day you will.

 

[bwana]

I still don't see what RAW offers that you can't achieve with the level/curve adjustments in Photoshop.

Working in RAW means the majority of the editing you do is non-destructive.

 

[Fudzy]

Then keep looking. One day you will.

Lol, I'm open to a site showing comparisons

Working in RAW means the majority of the editing you do is non-destructive.

Yeah I understand that you can keep 'the original' but you could do that anyway by making a copy surely?

 

[Angellus]

I still don't see what RAW offers that you can't achieve with the level/curve adjustments in Photoshop.

Try underexposing a shot by 2-stops in JPEG and RAW and then pushing that image up by 2 stops in Lightroom..... tell me if you still don't see what RAW offers.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Lol, I'm open to a site showing comparisons

I have put this one up before. Take the LH half of the pic and try your levels/curves bit and see if you can match the RH half.



There's just not enough info in the jpeg to do it...

 

[koffiejunkie]

Try underexposing a shot by 2-stops in JPEG and RAW and then pushing that image up by 2 stops in Lightroom..... tell me if you still don't see what RAW offers.

2 Stops? How about 10 stops? Try that with jpeg...