Originally posted by Bob 256 The skylight filter looks right to me
It's hard to get web colors to match originals when photographing saturated colors under varying lighting conditions (with film or digitally). Even if you do get them to appear true on your monitor, they may be different on someone else's so it's pretty academic to try sending these with "the right color".
If I hold my yellow filter up to my window, I see a different yellow than if I hold it up to an incandescent light. Then it will print different than it appears by transmitted light. To get all colors right, it's a pretty complicated process - paint stores use a multicolor analyzer and multiple pigments and still have a hard time.
Bottom line, don't worry too much about your issue. As long as buyers know what filter number they are buying, it should be ok.
There was NO skylight filter in the group. They were red, yellow, orange, green and blue. I used a 6000 degree Kelvin lighting for the shot, so that shouldn't have effected it too much.
---------- Post added 03-16-18 at 03:32 PM ----------
Originally posted by stevebrot The red and orange filters are quite vibrant on my system, but the others are not right. It almost looks as if a narrow band-pass filter was in place. Might it be part of the software used at some step?
The EXIF lists:
Make : Olympus Imaging Corp.
Camera Model Name : Pentax K-50
MakerNotes includes...
Raw Dev Version : 0100
Steve
Steve, the colors didn't look right even when viewing them in my camera monitor screen. I tried everything imaginable and what you see is the best I could do. I use an Olympus editing program but, like I said, the colors just didn't look right from the get-go. Why is says "Raw Dev Version: 0100" I have no idea. I've never shot a RAW image in my life.... that I'm aware of!
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O.K. I feel like Gyro Gearloose when the light bulb went on over his head! I checked my camera and it was NOT set to shoot RAW, but just for S&G's, for the first time in my life, I actually shot a RAW image! Guess what? The photo came out EXACTLY like it looks in real life! Man oh man.... NOW I know what all the fuss is about concerning shooting in RAW format! If Pentax changes the colors in ALL of the images I've been shooting all these years, then I've seriously hog-tied myself! This is a perfect show-and-tell event, wouldn't you think?
For the next few weeks, I'm going to shoot nothing but RAW and see if I've really been missing out on what it appears to be the case. I'm stunned!
Note: I went back into my post in the Market Place and replaced the image with one that's more appropriate!