I think I understand now why colors look so strange inside churches, It is probably the LED light, which doesn’t have the full color spectrum.
Is there any advice how to improve this?
Outside with buildings, I simplay increased the color temperature.
If you can post a sample raw file as a playraw people can try to solve the issue. There has been a lot of discussion in the past about LED stage lights but these have tended to be strongly colored spots.
It may be a case of mixed lighting rather than missing pieces of the spectrum, but I can only guess without a sample image.
temperature correction expects a continuous spectrum.
You can take a shot of a color checker and use this to correct for the different responses of the patches to an limited spectrum
I created a thread at playraw_ Problem getting nice colors, maybe problem with LED spots - #2 by linuxuser
If it are night shots with a black ground, I think it could be a workaround.
Here are 2 photos where I played with increasing the color temperatures
For me it looks nicer, than the original spotlights, which give a cold feeling.
Now that you have included a picture I can understand what you are asking about. There is no defect in the LED lights, but they are a cool daylight color and you would like a warmer incandescent look to their color. This can be corrected simply by playing with color temperature. Yes your edits would be looking nicer than the original colors.
Many years ago buildings were lit up at night with incandescent lights giving a nice orange glow to the stonework. Now many of the incandescent lights have been replaced with cold colored led lights so changing the color temperature in editing can bring back the warm tones we like.
Because one building or part of the scene can be lit by incandescent lights and the other part by LED masking can be effective technique to use different color calibration module settings on different parts of the image when required.
Interesting edit, Terry. I think they wanted to put St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome in another color, than the side buildings.
Did you use a drawn mask? As already said, no time at the moment to learn masks, but I will do when I have edited all my old photos.
As always, you are very very helpful.
I don’t like the edit I have shown here because the lights look gluggy, but I just wanted to demonstrate the concept since the buildings have different colored light sources.
You might regret editing thousands of pictures before exploring masks. So many pictures need localised edits. I am not sure what your rush is with editing so many images. Currently I am still editing images from my travels to Africa last August. I haven’t started on my images from China in October and I am about to embark on a trip to the Mediterranean in March. I just take my time and enjoy learning more about DT and using my holiday pictures to try out improved editing tools and techniques in DT. AgX and capture sharpening have been a game changing for my RAW file edits.
My goal is to get a lot photos (maybe 10000) better, but not perfect. I understand, that masks could help a lot, but not for now. Some photos I will edit a 2nd time later using a mask.
At the moment I want to learn what to avoid, so it is totally wrong. You helped me a lot Terry to do not things wrong, thank you so much. Unfortunately there are some old photos which slows things down.
