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Ultra
2nd of April 2007 (Mon), 22:26
Over the weekend I had my first photoshoot in a studio shooting one of my best friends. I shot the images in jpeg (Canon 20D) and my images are fine until I veiw them in Lightroom.

The blacks seem to be distorted in a noisy pixelated way. Notice her shoulder and the shaded side of her face (rightside image). This is an unedited image.

However when I view the original in any other program they are fine. (leftside image)

I checked the preview settings and they were set to the highest.

Does anyone have any ideas why the color black is doing this?

Sorry for the large image but it was the only way I could reproduce the effect.

http://www.lwonder.com/transfer/SP32-20070402-213605.jpg
gparvan
2nd of April 2007 (Mon), 22:40
I don't think I see your problem. The pics look good / no pixilation that I can see.
davidcrebelxt
2nd of April 2007 (Mon), 22:54
I don't think I see your problem. The pics look good / no pixilation that I can see.


Thanks for confirming what I was seeing too... :)

I was hesitant to post... thought maybe something was wrong on my end.
Tsmith
2nd of April 2007 (Mon), 22:56
Looks fine on my end too, even zoomed in.
cdifoto
2nd of April 2007 (Mon), 23:04
My 1D shows blockiness too. But it's a LR thing...when I convert everything is good so I just shrug it off. There are more important things to worry about in life.
mizuno
2nd of April 2007 (Mon), 23:09
Can you post some bigger pics, those ones are a bit too small.
gparvan
2nd of April 2007 (Mon), 23:33
Thanks for confirming what I was seeing too... :)

I was hesitant to post... thought maybe something was wrong on my end.


Sure you betcha! I'm still a NEWB!!! :lol::lol::lol:
NickSimcheck
3rd of April 2007 (Tue), 01:58
Sorry to say I'm having a hard time seeing the difference.

Post crops of the affected areas.
Ultra
3rd of April 2007 (Tue), 12:31
Odd that no one else can see them, but at least one person confirmed that I'm not nuts :)

I guess its just one of those things I just have to live with...

thanks all.
csm328
3rd of April 2007 (Tue), 12:33
Can you post some bigger pics, those ones are a bit too small.

LOL. back on topic....RGB or sRGB in LR? They look fine to me but LR can be strange.
davidcrebelxt
3rd of April 2007 (Tue), 12:40
So you're saying you see them in LR and on your forum post above, also? That would cause me to think there is a problem with your display, perhaps too bright or blacks not calibrated properly.
Ultra
3rd of April 2007 (Tue), 13:49
@ csm328 - RBG

@ I recently purchased two exact same monitors and both are calibrated. If I flip screens LR on the left and vistas image preview on the right I see the same effect in LR where the blacks are pixelated/blotched.

However looking at the forum post of my screen shot (from work) I dont see the problem... :confused:

Uhhh maybe I should take an actual picture of it when I get home?
wilvoeka
3rd of April 2007 (Tue), 23:39
What profiler are you using?

Did you do a Advanced profile or a Auot Profile?

If you did an auto profile your cd/m2 setting is probably way to high. For a LCD the cd/m2 should be set at 120.

Plus Your using Vista, which has a serious color profiling problem. You may have profiled your monitor but most likely Vista is ignoring it.
gparvan
3rd of April 2007 (Tue), 23:58
LOL. back on topic....RGB or sRGB in LR? They look fine to me but LR can be strange.

Are you suggesting that LR supports more than one RGB color space? I thought it only supported LightRoom RGB (similar to ProPhoto) with a gamma of 1.0 in order to match raw camera files?
cdifoto
4th of April 2007 (Wed), 00:05
Odd that no one else can see them, but at least one person confirmed that I'm not nuts :)

I guess its just one of those things I just have to live with...

thanks all.

If you think I said I confirmed seeing it, I don't see it on your posted images. I just see blocky blacks on some of my 1D RAWs. That's all I am saying.

Just to clarify. :)
René Damkot
4th of April 2007 (Wed), 04:36
However looking at the forum post of my screen shot (from work) I dont see the problem... :confused:

Uhhh maybe I should take an actual picture of it when I get home?

Maybe you should check the forum post at home. If you do see the problem in the post then, you know the problem is your monitor.
I see no problems...
Ultra
4th of April 2007 (Wed), 19:26
Ok the problem only exists within LR.

Looking at my screenshot from the original post I dont see the problem.

The blacks look fine using Vista's default viewer, Adobe Bridge and Photoshop CS2 or anywhere else other than LR.
suyenfung
4th of April 2007 (Wed), 20:00
my guess is lightroom is generating low quality previews.