topic Re: picture style setting 5D MK III in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

picture style setting 5D MK III

wrk4no1 — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:17:59 GMT

Does anyone know if you can adjust these setting to help lower "Red" intensity?

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:22:35 GMT

Part of the software package that comes with the camera is Picture Style Editor which you can use to tune a picture style.

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:24:23 GMT

http://www.learn.usa.canon.com/galleries/galleries/tutorials/pse_tutorials_gallery.shtml

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

wrk4no1 — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 02:47:53 GMT

Thanks for the response. I'm trying to find other ways to cut down red lights during concerts shoots.

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 02:50:27 GMT

I don't know how to do it in-camera. You could try in post.

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

ezpop — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 04:04:21 GMT

May be you should try WB Shift / BKT in shooting tab two. You will be able to manually fine-tune the colours of your pictures.

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:09:39 GMT

Is entire photo "too red" or is it just the red lights that are too intense?

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

wrk4no1 — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:16:41 GMT

The red lights are intense

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 01:43:20 GMT

without seeing an image it's difficult to diagnose. They may simply be small "hot spots" that are too small to influence exposure but have high brightness. You could try Neutral picture style.

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

Waddizzle — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:18:39 GMT

@wrk4no1 wrote:
The red lights are intense

What type of lights are they? Are they laser lights? Lasers are highly polarized, so a CPL filter might help.

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

wrk4no1 — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:39:51 GMT

They are stage lights

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:21:31 GMT

Sounds like they are a small but bright object, such that they don't impact exposure so they are overly bright. Not much you can do. If you use Lightroom or Photoshop you could perhaps paint them with the Adjustment Brush and bring down exposure on them.

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

TCampbell — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:36:57 GMT

What are you using for post processing the images (and are you shooting RAW)?

Good image adjustment software (e.g. Lightroom) will let you adjust saturation or luminance by color (you can desaturate or decrease the brightness of just one particular color without effecting the others.)

Also, many programs that allow you to adjust "levels" are typically showing you the "luminance" channel (the luminance channel is the entire visible spectrum of light) but many of the better editors will let you pick just one color channel and adjust levels on that channel alone.

I wouldn't fuss over the picture styles.

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

RobertTheFat — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 15:34:18 GMT

@TCampbell wrote:
What are you using for post processing the images (and are you shooting RAW)?

Good image adjustment software (e.g. Lightroom) will let you adjust saturation or luminance by color (you can desaturate or decrease the brightness of just one particular color without effecting the others.)

Also, many programs that allow you to adjust "levels" are typically showing you the "luminance" channel (the luminance channel is the entire visible spectrum of light) but many of the better editors will let you pick just one color channel and adjust levels on that channel alone.

I wouldn't fuss over the picture styles.

Desaturating a single color works if that color is too prominent over the whole image, but in this case it could drain red out of places that need it. A better approach might be to suppress the highlights (since that's evidently what the red lights are in this situation). DPP lets you do that, so the Adobe products probably do as well.

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

TCampbell — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 18:00:20 GMT

You can localize any adjustment in LR by "brushing over" the adjustment area. Any global adjustment (exposure, contrast, highlights & shadows, white balance, saturation, etc. etc.) can usually also be applied to a brushed on area.

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

wrk4no1 — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 00:53:06 GMT

Lightroom CC and I shoot in RAW.

Re: picture style setting 5D MK III

jrhoffman75 — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 02:30:24 GMT

If you are shooting RAW and processing in Lightroom Picture Styles in camera don't matter.

Use the Adjustment Brush to paint and reduce the luminance of the red lights.