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First DP3Merrill and DP2x shots

Started Feb 3, 2014 | Photos thread
pat scales
pat scales Contributing Member • Posts: 578
Difficulty photoing artwork with DP2M and SPP. Help!

I took a  DP2M photo of an artwork, acrylic painting. The jpeg turned out close to true color, but the raw file when put in spp  was washed out and the color balance was way off. It took alot to retrieve it. It was especially difficult to deal with the tan/brown tones on the skin, and then more work in photoshop. I have never experienced this with landscapes in spp.  Can anyone offer an explaination?

Thinking of buying the DP3M and wondering if the color response is that different when photographing colorful artwork, especially portraits like this.

.x3f file  before editing

I checked preferences to see if some previous presets were influencing the result. Negative.

jpeg straight from camera much closer to actual colors.

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