R10 - Red color showing orange

[jpolisel]

I'm an amateur and could be doing amateur mistake, please bear with me.

I went to a car show, took pictures up close with my EOS R10, all of the red cars were pictured in orange-red tone not a strong and vibrant red. I tried changing picture style from Auto to every other option and it didn't work. I tried to increase saturation manually, but results were still very subpar. I took a picture with my phone, and colors were accurate.

On the R10 I used Fv mode, and I used only exposure compensation, everything else "Auto", the event was outdoors around noon, and it was a sunny day.

How can I avoid this issue next time?

I was researching about Color Checkr24, but it says to produce "HSL profile" and I couldn't confirm if Canon DPP can import that. Also, I'm not sure if this is the way I should go. I appreciate any guidance, thank you!

[kvbarkley]

Look at the histogram, you probably blew out the red channel. You need to lower the exposure a few stops.

You can choose an RGB histogram in order to look for this in the future:

[kvbarkley · Accepted solution]

This exact thing happened to someone else:

https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/61386/why-does-bright-red-in-direct-sun-come-out-orange/61...

[jpolisel]

Thank you! Didn't think that something like this could happen.

I've got the RAW files, found in DPP how to change histogram to RGB and it does look red is blow, also when I hover over the picture in the car's paint, I see Red value almost always 255.

[stevet1]

jpolisel,

Another thing to look at is what White Balance you were using. For outdoors on a sunny day, try a White Balance around 5200K. That should be close to the Daylight Preset on your camera.

Steve Thomas

[jpolisel]

I had the white balance set to Auto, then I changed to Daylight at some point as a test to see if it would help with the orange-red issue, it helped but by a tiny bit, also I noticed the difference later at the computer, in the camera viewfinder under I barely noticed any difference.

Then I switch back to auto because I was taking pictures under direct sunlight and also under shadow.

[stevet1]

Jpolisel,

You have already accepted a solution to your immediate problem from kvbarkley, so I don't want to step on his toes.

On a side note, put your camera in Live View and hit your Q button. Scroll down and select your White Balance settings. Choose the Kelvin setting. Using your arrow keys, you can raise or lower your temperature and see the change reflected on your LCD screen. Temperatures of 3900 or so will turn everything blue. Tempertures of 7000 or 7800 will turn everything orange.

You can manually select your Kelvin temperature before you take your shot.

If you have changing light conditions, leaving it in Auto will probably be best, but for some reason, my camera doesn't seem to like Auto very much. My pictures seemed to come out looking washed out. I've more or less settled on run-of-the mill every day shooting at 5300K.

Steve Thomas

[kvbarkley]

He is shooting RAW, he can set WB in post. But it won't help if the red channel is clipped.

[stevet1]

kvbarkley,

How would one go about correcting that? You said something about lowering the exposure a  couple of stops.

Steve Thomas

[Peter]

To check raw clipping you can use:

• RawDigger that is free to try
• RawTherapee that has a raw histogram if you change the histogram setting
• darktable that has a raw clipping indicator
• Hraw, but you will need to convert to DNG first