Baseball Shot - colors seem odd - need you opinion

[Croasdail]

Here is a shot from a game last week at a Duke University. I shot it with a 10d and a 70-300 USM IS lens. This is the second time I have shot baseball and both times I have noticed in certain shots the color of the infield comes back with an odd red tint to it - almost oversaturated. We are in the south, and red clay is in abundance, but it still looks too red. Has anyone else had issues with reds being off with this combination? It is always with this lens. Is there a way to calibrate the camera to avoid this or is PS the best resolution. Or is it just me that is off? Thanks!

[Croasdail]

Of course now that I have it posted - it looks less red in this version - maybe it's just me....

[ThaOre0]

differing color profiles?

[Croasdail]

Does anyone else see the ground having a pink tint to it? On two of my three computers the red are over saturated... maybe it is a screen calibration thing.

thanks

[drisley]

Sounds like you are working in AdobeRGB, and then saving for web without converting to sRGB first.
This will cause your images to look saturated in you image editing program (especially the reds) and then undersaturated when you save for web.
Is this more like what you are seeing?

http://images2.fotop.net/albums/sharpnsmart/miscellaneous/test.jpg

[Moments]

Are you using Auto White Balance? The green grass and the red clay could be throwing off the color in auto. Also, reds always seem to be saturated with the 10D and 20D when shot in Srgb to me. I now shoot in Adobe RGB for the larger color space and convert to Srgb for the lab.

[Croasdail]

Yes - on screen while editing i end up with pink infields... then when saved for web they have a more normal color balance. I haven't played with on camera color balance at all yet, so I will give that a whirl. My big printer is down right now and all that I have is my 4x6 printer - so I haven't been able to test the printers calibration yet to see which way it is interpreting the reds.

Funny thing though I was out shooting some early morning shot this morning and metering was way off so I reverted back to manual metering with much better results. So, with me manually focusing half the time to get rid of back focusing, overiding the meter enough of the time, and now adjusting for color balance... it's just like the good old days of manual cameras. The good side to all this is at least I feel like I am doing something here other then just pressing a button and the camera does the rest.

Thanks again for taking time to help.

[drisley]

Croasdail,
That is definately a colour management issue.
What program are you using for image editing?

[Croasdail]

Photo Shop Elements 2.0 - if that helps. I have been avoiding doing the full calibration... don't even know how much you can do in Elements.

Thanks for looking and helping.

[mdm]

I can see the red tint. Nah not really. The shots look good.

[drisley]

Croasdail, do a google for info how to setup colour management in that software, then set the working space to sRGB.

[Croasdail]

will do - thanks for your help.