Pink Problem

[golden-balls]

I'm trying some HDR.

When the exposure is +2 i'm getting pink in the highlight areas.

Anyone know why?

TIA

GB

[Lowner]

Get off my sandbank you rascal. I have a load of shots from slightly further to the right and looking more upstream. Taken last Summer.

Back to your question. I don't know, but I have seen similar. These are blown highlights by the look of it. Could it be Photoshop telling you just that?

Richard

[Alexajlex]

Got a version of it reworked.
Let me know if you want me to post it.

[kevin_c]

The 'pink' areas look blown-out' to me. The image looks very 'flat' though...

[Rellik]

What program are you using for this HDR? Post more details. Steps you took, how you capture the exposures....etc.

[golden-balls]

This image is direct from the camera.

No processing at all.

It's Raw and brought into Picasa.

Ta

[Damo77]

It looks like severely bungled white balancing. I've seen it once before (nothing to do with HDR though) but I never got to the bottom of the problem.

[kevin_c]

It's the sort of thing that happens when you up the saturation too much on blown-out highlights. I'm guessing there must be a slight magenta tint to the WB to be causing this.

[Damo77]

It's the sort of thing that happens when you up the saturation too much on blown-out highlights. I'm guessing there must be a slight magenta tint to the WB to be causing this.

Well, obviously, blown-out highlights have nil data, so you can't over-saturate something that doesn't exist. But yes, I'd say there's a magenta tint to the WB.

[kevin_c]

Well, obviously, blown-out highlights have nil data, so you can't over-saturate something that doesn't exist. But yes, I'd say there's a magenta tint to the WB.

But if the WB is not spot-on and the blown-highlights are not pure white you will get a blown-out colour cast. You can 'blow' any colour out, not just white.

[golden-balls]

Bump.

Still no nearer the solution.

GB

[NOsquid]

They're just blown out highlights. You've clipped one or two of your R/G/B color channels so you get a funny color cast. When you clip them all you get pure white. Looking at the histogram B and R are blown. You're left with the green/magenta channel.