cancel
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Red Grain in the Under Exposed portions of the Image. Canon 70D

MatthewB
Contributor

IMG_0288.jpg

With the majorit of the images I take, any section of the image that is slightly underexposed turns to the red grain as you can see on the bottom of the balconies in the image above. Is there a setting I can change or is it just what the Canon 70D does?

19 REPLIES 19

It was bright sunlight with no clouds, I was standing in the shade.


@MatthewB wrote:

It was bright sunlight with no clouds, I was standing in the shade.


And, the building face is not in direct sunlight.  The sky is totally washed out.  

 

I think your shot just might have too much dynamic range.  Are you familiar with HDR captures?

 

3F26D07A-067D-453B-8BBE-7356E33615BE.jpeg

 

Here is one.  Exposing for the background was too dim to capture the foreground.  Exposing for the foreground was too bright for the background.  I took three shots -2, 0, 2 Ev.

 

 

--------------------------------------------------------
"The right mouse button is your friend."

I do know what they are but dont know how to take them in camera

 

The DR of that shot is not extreme.  It is drastically underexposed.  Try the shot again with a more correct exposure and see if it helps. But first reset your camera to default settings.  Otherwise call Canon and schedule a C&C. Tell them the problem you are seeing.

EB
EOS 1DX and 1D Mk IV and less lenses then before!

HDR,  "..but dont know how to take them in camera"

 

Very simple and any camera can do it. Some cameras can do it automatically. Check your manual. Essentially you take three or more shots each with a slightly different exposure.  For instance take a 1 stop underexposed, correct exposure and a 1 stop over exposed. I prefer to use Lightromm or Photoshop to merge the three, or more, shots together.

EB
EOS 1DX and 1D Mk IV and less lenses then before!

I hope your sensor is not failing.  

 

 

  • BEFEBAB4-4761-4B91-AA83-F0BD2609F3ED.jpeg

 

This is really not a whole lot of post processing.  All I did was click [AUTO].

--------------------------------------------------------
"The right mouse button is your friend."

Peter
Authority
Authority

My guess is that 70D reads out 4 columns at a time and one of them is defect. Search for Weird stripes on 5D mark II raw. The sky has a maze pattern same as some 7D and 5D II. Green Equilibration in RawTherapee solves that.

 

Bayer pattern from your 70D below:

 

Skärmbild från 2019-09-27 10-57-49.png

Waddizzle
Legend
Legend
The DR of that shot is not extreme. It is drastically underexposed.”

It is both under and over exposed. Look at the histogram. It is saturated in both highlights and shadows.
--------------------------------------------------------
"The right mouse button is your friend."

With Hraw it is easy to check the highlights. 0.001% clipped in green channels.

 

Capture.JPG

 

Capture1.JPG


@Peter wrote:

With Hraw it is easy to check the highlights. 0.001% clipped in green channels.

 

 


I think you are correct.  I took a closer look at the histogram, and the highlights are not saturated.

--------------------------------------------------------
"The right mouse button is your friend."
Avatar
Announcements