NX500 over saturated blue skies?

Greeting Kypfer and Ben, and many thanks for your input.

kypfer, I’m confident I can work through this one without putting glass in front of glass. But thanks for the suggestion. I think I may have just worked this one out but first let me explain my favoured shooting method. This would be 3 shots bracketed exposures and with all cameras over the years, my experience has been that digital cameras tend to normally over-expose. (I’ll make and exception - where I found my ancient Pentax *ist got it spot on.)

So through the seasons I have tended to work with 0 exposure compensation through the winter months, trending towards minus 0.3 spring and autumn, and minus 0.6 through the summer. I’m a fair weather shooter, so we are talking gloriously sunny days. And oh my, but we have been enjoying the most marvellous spell just lately here in the UK.

My experimentation has led me towards +0.3 exposure compensation (previously unheard of) and bracketed exposures once again. Furthermore, I have shifted the auto WB one notch to the right and one notch up from the default. This seemed to have worked because I am inclined to believe that negative exposure compensation does tend to saturate colours rather reminiscent of the film slides of yesteryear.

Hello Ben; I hear what you are saying in all regards and with the mentioned variables like time of day, angle of the shoot, and even the incredible variations in a single image. It becomes obvious if one was to clone a small dot of blue from one part of the sky and paste it into another part. It will look like a dust mote on the sensor!

What it is Ben, is I have just parted company with a Nikon D5500 which I thought had the most amazing natural colours of any camera I have owned previously. And of course, the output is what I have got used to. So I just need to tame the Samsung colours a tad with regards to the intensity of the blue. And I’m getting there.

I am also working with the RAW files processing the images in Oloneo PhotoEngine, and finalised in Corel’s PaintShop Pro. Piece of cake getting the rendition exactly how one wants it in RAW don’t you think?

Warmest regards to you both, and thanks Ben for posting those beautiful pictures.

Keith