Color consistency

jthomas

I shot this picture on our deck this morning testing a new lens. I was pretty pleased with the result, so I uploaded it to SmugMug so I could show it to someone else.

Oops! The colors don't look the same. On both of my monitors at home, the original looks VERY red. But viewing it on the smugmug gallery, the red is very muted and rather bluish:



What's going on here?

Phil U.

It's probably in the Adobe 1998 color space. Before saving out to JPG to post on the web, do Image/Mode/Convert Profile and convert to sRGB profile.

jthomas

Thanks. Maybe this is better:



A little bit...

Can you give a technical explanation as to why this is necessary?

Rohirrim

There have been quite a few discussions regarding Color Management. It may take you a week or two to look through all the disussions

You might start here:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/srgb-versus-adobe-rgb-1998

A recent thread as well:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=15381

Regards,

jthomas

Many thanks. I've learned something today!

Too bad you folks with experience have to keep educating us newbies.

lynnma

yeah but if you are on the brink of senility like me you need to hear things several times... picture is beautiful and rich rich color on my monitor.

jthomas

lynnma wrote:

yeah but if you are on the brink of senility like me you need to hear things several times... picture is beautiful and rich rich color on my monitor.

Yes, me too!

Thanks for the compliments on the picture, but really, it was the camera.

I was testing out a lens I just acquired- Nikkor 28-200 f/3.5-5.6. This is not an expensive lens, but it performs remarkably well, I think. It will be my main lens for an upcoming trip to the Canadian Rockies.:):

cletus

Nice shot!

I'm glad you got the color closer to what you wanted.