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When I shoot very brightly colored flowers I often get an extremely saturated picture with blown out details. I'm using the standard picture control setting.
Posted at 7:08PM, 22 July 2009 PDT
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Because it IS blowing things out. Your camera meter is reading a variety of exposures here, like that fence and the shadows of the other leaves, and is thus lowering the shutter speed to get some detail out of it. While the flower petals still blast back at you with all that light, it is blowing them out!
Posted 35 months ago.
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I recall from a Nikonian podcast that the red channel can easily get clipped on Nikon cameras. Check your RBG histogram, maybe this is the case.
Posted 35 months ago.
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There are a couple of things you can do...
Try spot metering on the brightest colors, use AE-L and re-frame the picture. Check out the histogram and adjust exposure with EV -1, -1.7, etc until you get a good solid pic.
Or just expose to the left a bit and make sure you look at the red histogram in particular. It will blow out way before the green or blue.
Shoot raw -- don't depend on JPEG to be fixable (though there is a little bit of room in JPEG, there's not very much).
Try using the AdobeRGB color space as well -- it can appear muted on an uncalibrated screen, but you can convert it to sRGB later to bring out that "pop."
Posted 35 months ago.
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