Too orange??

Is this too orange....?
Should I crop the bottom?

thanks for the feedback
wm

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You have completely blown the red channel. The yellow highlights on the jacket is where you also blew the green channel.

If you had this in RAW/NEF it may be salvageable but is is destroyed as you posted it. Did you try to PP it already?

Look at the red channel in Levels to see that the histogram is piled up on the right. No channel should ever reach the right edge unless all channels reach the edge in a specular high light.

Leon

wmumpower said:

Is this too orange....?
Should I crop the bottom?

thanks for the feedback
wm

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Thanks Leon

This is straight from the cam....no pp done yet.

wm

I looked at your website. You must have contrast set very high and color set vivid. Most of your pictures with red have blown the red channel.

In really bright light mid day sun you need to use a fill flash to reach into the shadows so the eye sockets do not turn black.

I know you are going for the brilliant colors of the track, but you have to be careful or you will flatten the colors so there is no texture to the uniforms. I would start by setting EV -.7 and learn to use a custom curve which flattens out the bright end. The curve that wedding photographers use may be good for this.

Remember, digital cameras are almost blind to red and so they tend to over expose without you knowing it until you look at the levels later.

Whenever I have a predominantly red object such as a flower, I always under expose for safety.

Leon

wmumpower said:

Thanks Leon

This is straight from the cam....no pp done yet.

wm

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Thanks for the feedback leon.....
wm

Yep leon has given good advice, looking at your exif I see you have saturation set on high, try it on normal, you can add a little in pp if it is lacking, much harder to remove after the fact.

Also if you do a lot of people shots I find the colours in sRGB Ia better for skin tones than sRGB IIIa, but this is on a D50, not sure if it is the same for the D80, may be worth a try though.

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You have your WB set to flash which will give a saturate the reds and yellows to warm the image.
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