60D users, friends and their random OT B.S. (II)

Congrats CJ.

Immaculens wrote in post #16252322
Congrats and hope you enjoy your 6D - and - hope it does its part in bringing your photography to a level of expression you desire

vinmunoz wrote in post #16252354
Congrats CJ.

Thanks Willi and Vinz. I really can't wait to put it to use tomorrow.

The nifty fifty feels like a whole different lens on it.

Vixen89 wrote in post #16251853
Welcome to the club! I'm sure the others here would give great advice, I suck IMO but from time to time I'm able to pump out some great stuff.

Yes you are right but how in the world are your photo settings changing before you even edit them? I'm puzzled by this too and I'm staring at my Lightroom for every option possible..

Silly question, you are importing RAW files right and not JPGs by chance?

yes, I'm importing raw. The highlights, shadows, whites and black are also affected. All other sliders are at zero on import (except for my import sharpening settings).

NewCreation wrote in post #16252656
yes, I'm importing raw. The highlights, shadows, whites and black are also affected. All other sliders are at zero on import (except for my import sharpening settings).

LR always has sharpening set on import, for me. I have to remember to undo it before I start doing other things.

NewCreation wrote in post #16252656
yes, I'm importing raw. The highlights, shadows, whites and black are also affected. All other sliders are at zero on import (except for my import sharpening settings).

I hope I found your answer, there is a setting upon import in the import dialog box that I circled here:

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Vixen89 wrote in post #16252887
I hope I found your answer, there is a setting upon import in the import dialog box that I circled here:

From what I read from last night and this morning (this problem urked me) it will remember the last setting you used if you had a preset set for every import since then. You have to manually turn it off if you want to import your RAWs with Lightroom not touching it. Mines is on None just because some of my photos I don't believe need tweaking but yeah I saw someone used this on a page I read and they had theirs set to fix sharpness, and add warms tone or whatever by using any preset that exists in their Lightroom library and it applied to everything on import.

What is yours on Brenda? Is it a silly mean preset? D:<

If you are already using this ...does that mean the preset you have for sharpening is affecting the rest of your photo?

I so much appreciate you helping me sort this out! But I don't think it answers my question. :/ Because if it were an import preset, wouldn't all the exposure levels end up the same? For example, I have some in a batch that are +.75 and in the same batch -1.3 (or something like that) and stops in between. I will shoot some snaps and turn off my import preset to be sure.

NewCreation wrote in post #16252925
I so much appreciate you helping me sort this out! But I don't think it answers my question. :/ Because if it were an import preset, wouldn't all the exposure levels end up the same? For example, I have some in a batch that are +.75 and in the same batch -1.3 (or something like that) and stops in between. I will shoot some snaps and turn off my import preset to be sure.

Yes you are right they would tweak out the same everytime...so poo if this isn't it I'm going to go back to reading when I get a chance, luckily it's Friday so I'll get more time to try to find more answers but first MY DAY JOB ! However, I do think a clean uninstall and simple reinstall would actually probably fix all this since it defaults ALL settings. xD

OK. So I had this thought. Is LR reading my histogram? So if a shot has a lot of dark colors, LR thinks it's underexposed and thus shows that on the slider? Vice versa with a shot with a lot of whites?

In LR preferences, what do your import settings look like?

Vixen89 wrote in post #16252937
Yes you are right they would tweak out the same everytime...so poo if this isn't it I'm going to go back to reading when I get a chance, luckily it's Friday so I'll get more time to try to find more answers but first MY DAY JOB ! However, I do think a clean uninstall and simple reinstall would actually probably fix all this since it defaults ALL settings. xD

Yay for a day job!

So I just took 5 shots out my window in av mode pointing in slightly different directions. Imported them with all develop settings to "none". When I go to the develop module, I have exposure settings from -1.90 to -.45 and contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, & blacks all vary, too.

Under LR preferences, do you happen to have "Apply Auto Tone Adjustments" checked?

CJCMarquez wrote in post #16253007
Under LR preferences, do you happen to have "Apply Auto Tone Adjustments" checked?

YES!!! That and this: http://www.lightroomfo​rums.net …hy-did-Lr-ruin-my-picture are likely what I am experiencing.

What do you all have it set at?

I have no import presets but I do batch edit with minimal NR-Sharp-lens correction.

Thanks, CJ and Lisa for your help!! It was the "auto tone". I deleted the pics and reimported the same files no develop settings and now all the sliders are at zero.

Does any one use the "auto tone" feature? I can figure out the sense in how it's applied.