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Flower color accuracy problems
I've been struggling with my camera's tendency to get flower colours
wrong where blue purple and magenta are concerned (Sony A550). Not in any consistent way. Sometimes blues come out purple, sometimes purples come out blue. It's partly that auto white balance gets it wrong when the flower bloom fills the image. Using a gray card to set white balance improves things. It's partly intense colours getting overexposed -- reducing exposure helps. So by way of experiment I've been photographing flowers in the garden, processing and printing them, and then taking the print out to the garden to compare it with the flower. I was stunned to discover that my latest careful methodology had produced a blue print of a very obviously pink Morning Glory bloom. But wait a minute! I was sure I remembered the flower being blue! Could it be changes in UV radiation? It turns out that some Morning Glory flowers change from blue to pink during the course of a day. And back again. Hm... -- Chris Malcolm |
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Flower color accuracy problems
Chris Malcolm wrote:
But wait a minute! I was sure I remembered the flower being blue! Could it be changes in UV radiation? That would seem very likely to me. One way to check would be to use an effective UV filter. If you have a Kodak 2A gel or a Tiffen 2A filter one would almost certainly fix the problem if it is the UV content that is causing the problem. (These filters have a slight yellow colour to them, but are known to be completely effective against UV. The fact that you can not tell a good UV filter from an ineffective one by looking can be a problem because some things sold as UV filters nowadays are sold for "protection" and the makers do not expect the customer to care whether they filter out UV or not.) Peter. -- |
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Flower color accuracy problems
On 27/08/2012 19:30, Chris Malcolm wrote:
I've been struggling with my camera's tendency to get flower colours wrong where blue purple and magenta are concerned (Sony A550). Not in any consistent way. Sometimes blues come out purple, sometimes purples come out blue. It's partly that auto white balance gets it wrong when the flower bloom fills the image. Using a gray card to set white balance improves things. It's partly intense colours getting overexposed -- reducing exposure helps. So by way of experiment I've been photographing flowers in the garden, processing and printing them, and then taking the print out to the garden to compare it with the flower. I was stunned to discover that my latest careful methodology had produced a blue print of a very obviously pink Morning Glory bloom. But wait a minute! I was sure I remembered the flower being blue! Could it be changes in UV radiation? It turns out that some Morning Glory flowers change from blue to pink during the course of a day. And back again. Hm... It is a side effect of getting flesh tones exactly right. They deliberately bury all the residual errors in the line of purples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_purples You have to be unlucky about the choice of plant but some do really mess up slide film - much less so on digital CCD imaging. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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Flower color accuracy problems
On 8/27/2012 2:30 PM, Chris Malcolm wrote:
I've been struggling with my camera's tendency to get flower colours wrong where blue purple and magenta are concerned (Sony A550). Not in any consistent way. Sometimes blues come out purple, sometimes purples come out blue. It's partly that auto white balance gets it wrong when the flower bloom fills the image. Using a gray card to set white balance improves things. It's partly intense colours getting overexposed -- reducing exposure helps. So by way of experiment I've been photographing flowers in the garden, processing and printing them, and then taking the print out to the garden to compare it with the flower. I was stunned to discover that my latest careful methodology had produced a blue print of a very obviously pink Morning Glory bloom. But wait a minute! I was sure I remembered the flower being blue! Could it be changes in UV radiation? It turns out that some Morning Glory flowers change from blue to pink during the course of a day. And back again. Hm... But some flowers are notorious for photographing pink because of UV while appearing blue to the eye; wild gentians of Switzerland are a spectacular example. -- Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD) Extraneous "not" in Reply To. |
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Flower color accuracy problems
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:36:21 +0000 (UTC), Peter Irwin wrote:
: Chris Malcolm wrote: : : But wait a minute! I was sure I remembered the flower being blue! : Could it be changes in UV radiation? : : That would seem very likely to me. One way to check would be to use : an effective UV filter. If you have a Kodak 2A gel or a Tiffen 2A : filter one would almost certainly fix the problem if it is the UV : content that is causing the problem. (These filters have a slight : yellow colour to them, but are known to be completely effective : against UV. The fact that you can not tell a good UV filter from : an ineffective one by looking can be a problem because some things : sold as UV filters nowadays are sold for "protection" and the makers : do not expect the customer to care whether they filter out UV or not.) I'd expect flaws in the glass to be a greater problem with cheap filters than failure to block ultraviolet. Most cheap glass doesn't pass ultraviolet well. Two examples: Hospitals and nursing homes buy (or at least did the last I knew) special UV-passing glass for their sunrooms. And photochromic sunglasses don't work well in automobiles because the windows filter out most of the UV, and it's UV that makes the glasses darken. Bob |
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