Presumably it’s more difficult to see that the highlights are blown when it’s
that colour – without checking the histogram.
Chris
> On 12 Jul 17, at 20:21, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/9/2017 10:53 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> As I walked around a neighbor's house, checking on it while she is away, I
>> spotted this rosebud just begging to be photographed. I gave in.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20170709-DSCF2799.JPG.html
>> <http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20170709-DSCF2799.JPG.html>
>
> Nice flower.
>
> But Dood, you've let those red pixels get out of hand!
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Nichols/Sunday_Rosebud.htm
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Nichols/Sunday_Rosebud.htm>>
>
> The histogram says that at some point, in capture or processing, those red
> highlights were smashed up against the top, then pulled back down. What
> should be a broad hill of red, just touching the top of the histogram has
> become a spike, down below the top. With EV comp. of -2/3, I suspect
> something in Raw conversion/processing is at least the major culprit.
>
> In the process, both highlight textural detail and brightness have been lost.
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