Originally posted by toooldtocare Ever notice how some people have their TV's color saturated and think they look great? Some people pay for color so they want to see it.
I think the same is true for some less experienced photographers, they love saturated colors so Pentax and most companies give it to them. My K5 also saturates red too much, so I turned down the saturation and I like the photos much better now. Funny too, my Canon 5DII did the same thing until I turned down the saturation. Wayne
Hi
That's a turn up for the books, so now it seems I am not the only one who is critical of "supercharged" colours that we see so often now. Your observation re TV colour settings in public places like hotels is something I have been repulsed by for as long as I can remember. I have written about this here in this forum as well. The first thing I adjust when I turn the TV on in a hotel is I de-saturate the colours. When the first HD software came onto the market that makes oversat colours soooo easy I said to myself, Oh merde here we go.
In a photograph, people just do not want to see nor except true colour rendreing. That is of course not everybody but a great many. Sunsets are a popular favorite for turbo charged coloues. Also a fair number of people thing they can rescue a so-so image by cranking up the colours.
This reminds me of an experiment I participated in at art classes many years ago. We had a teacher who was fanatical about colours and their place in the world around us. Part of his teaching was not only to "see" colours but also to remember them as accurately as possible. His idea was to remember colours the same way people do to remember words, namely by association. In the experiment we were shown a number of 200mm square colour plates of different colours. Then at the and of the class we were ask reproduce or select the previously shown colours from a huge selection of different shades oil colour tubes. You know what? Everyone, including myself, selected colours that where way over in intensety, in other words much stronger colours.
When I see over-the-top sunset shots here (yes in this forum) I remember this art class experiment and I know why so many are way over the top. The added problem is, a beautiful sunset overstimulates the observers senses, often also emotionally. Then when this image is opened up on screen a few days later, guess what happens, yes, oversaturated colours! And no way of reasoning will change peoples mind - NO that is how I saw it. (And how dare you telling me different, you weren't there!)
Oh well, just have to live with it. And please no hatemail
Greetings