I’ve been struggling with lightroom issues of late, and this is to do with how Canon and Lightroom handle RAW files differently. Trawling the web others seem to have the same issue. RAW files look darker in Lightroom than they do in the image preview on the camera and how Canon’s DPP program renders them. After some research, I discovered that this is mainly due to the color profile Adobe uses for RAW files and the difference between that and what the camera uses. For RAW files, Lightroom uses the Prophoto RGB colourspace to render all files. Most cameras would probably be using sRGB colourspace. Because Prophoto is a wider colour gamut than sRGB the colour values are different and to have them in that range they appear darker. sRGB has a more compressed colourspace and hence the colours appear slightly brighter for the same colour values.
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RAW Files Look Darker In Lightroom
Written by kingbob on December 16th, 2011Engagement Party – Drayton, Toowoomba
Written by kingbob on December 6th, 2011Last weekend I shot an engagement party. Had a great time and a lot of fun doing it. Some great people there. I wanted to share these two candid shots I took while I was just wandering around the hall. I really like these two.
St Andrew’s Hospital Toowoomba Show And Shine 2011
Written by kingbob on November 26th, 2011I went along to the charity show and shine event this afternoon held at St Andrew’s hospital, Toowoomba, to check out some nice cars and take a few photos. This is what I came up with. Also, I have to add that automotive photography is so much more fun with an UWA lens apart from the fact that it’s a pain to try get photos symmertical.
Processing, Single RAW File Vs Multiple RAW Files
Written by kingbob on November 22nd, 2011A RAW file can contain mountains of information about a shot. The below photo was processed from a single RAW file of a sunset this afternoon. In the original file, the sky was slightly blown out and the ground was very underexposed.
Sunset 17/11/11
Written by kingbob on November 17th, 2011
Slightly More Surreal
Written by kingbob on November 15th, 2011Gave these two photos a more surreal feeling. Not my usual style but I think it works.
Sunset 11/11/11
Written by kingbob on November 11th, 2011
After Study
Written by kingbob on November 4th, 2011
Tuesday Evening Sunset
Written by kingbob on October 26th, 2011I went out Tuesday afternoon to try catch the sunset. There were some promising looking clouds in the sky that I was hoping would give me some great scenery.
