An annoying D70 habit
Discussion
Sometimes you can take a picture and the exposure is perfect - try adding +1/3 and the highlights waring goes off.
But point it at a bloke in a room with ambient light and you get this:
I think it should look more like this - but this took considerable extra brightness and contrast. And is it me or is that skin a bit green?
Are all DSLRs like this?
But point it at a bloke in a room with ambient light and you get this:
I think it should look more like this - but this took considerable extra brightness and contrast. And is it me or is that skin a bit green?
Are all DSLRs like this?
It's difficult for me to answer that green bit, my monitor is not calibrated to a high degree, although there is clearly more green channel in the second image.
It's for this reason that I have learnt straight away what I need to do to preset the white balance for difficult situations. If you have the time, bracketing exposure is easily handled by the D70 too.
Then I think you can concentrate on an adjustment or curves layer to your preference without needing to do much to colour?***
As far as whether all digitals produce similar results, well we all know the Nikon's leanings. I tend to think of it as an "endearing feature" rather than a "handicap"!
***There's always the "monochrome" button on the channels mixer......
It's for this reason that I have learnt straight away what I need to do to preset the white balance for difficult situations. If you have the time, bracketing exposure is easily handled by the D70 too.
Then I think you can concentrate on an adjustment or curves layer to your preference without needing to do much to colour?*** As far as whether all digitals produce similar results, well we all know the Nikon's leanings. I tend to think of it as an "endearing feature" rather than a "handicap"!
***There's always the "monochrome" button on the channels mixer......
Phil S said:
The first image almost looks like it has a polariser on!
It's incredible isn't it? All I've done is resize, boost brightness about +20, contrast about +10, and sharpen. The green hue in photo 2 must be a product of the brightness/contrast boost I think.
Images tend to look OK in the viewfinder, even at default brightness, so one idea is to turn that down a bit - but then I won't see it so well outdoors...
It's not a fill-flash thing as it was taken in ambient light. It just doesn't seem to like portraits!
Mad Dave said:
What ISO was that taken at John?
1/160th at f3.2, 160mm, c/w metering, 0 EV. Unfortunately ISO is tucked away somewhere; can't find it even in Nikon Capture. I find spot metering can be too precise, but I'd have thought that c/w should have got it about right. Histogram is way to the left too.
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