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Anna's Hummiongbird - I need help

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Wed 29-Jul-20 12:37 PM
Red, Yellow, Orange and Fuschia are particularly difficult to manage. It's a common problem. But rather than a gamut issue or calibration problem, try addressing the issue with these steps. Were you using Lightroom - I'll assume so.

The basic issue is you have too much contrast and saturation in the Red/Yellow/Orange colors. To my eye, the image may be slightly overexposed, but that can be corrected. It may require that you locally adjust the subject.

Start with the Camera Neutral Profile in Lightroom. Camera Vivid - and even Camera Standard or Adobe Standard all start with some added contrast. You might be able to get away with Camera Standard - but Neutral gives you the best start.

Don't make any global edits that increase contrast and saturation. That means you should not use Contrast, Clarity, Vibrance, or Saturation in the Basic panel. You can use negative adjustments for those settings - but not positive adjustments. Use Negative adjustments if needed.

Look at your histogram and see if any colors are blown - particularly Red or Yellow. If so - or if they are right at the edge, make a small exposure adjustment to reduce exposure.

If you still have a problem, go into the HSL panel and slightly reduce Luminance for Red, Orange, and possibly Yellow. Also look at Saturation for those colors, and you might make a small adjustment to reduce saturation for those colors.

If you still have a problem, use the Adjustment Brush and brush in an Exposure reduction and saturation reduction for the flowers. You can use a range mask if the area is difficult to select.

Once the Red/Orange flowers are tamed, you can continue with your edit. You want to be careful not to use global edits that create more problems, so you may end up using the adjustment brush to edit the hummingbird.

My experience is that you can fix the image and print it without problems. Keep as wide a gamut as possible. If you convert to a JPEG, you have a reduced gamut and may get some clipping. Even for posting on the internet, you might need to pull back the red/orange channel more than for a print because of the limited color gamut.

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