Lightroom Oversaturation Issue

Nothing has been edited on the two attached photos. These were shot with my 7D, but my 5D Mark III does the same thing. It happens most when I'm shooting night events with colored lighting. Is this really how the untouched RAW photo should look? If so, how do I fix it in LR? If not, why does it look like this?

Thanks for any help!

It looks kinda like some clipping warning. I don't know enough about it to even comment.

Nope, it's in the JPG conversion, too.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/vJh5​gq

What happens if you go to the HSL section in the Develop panel and tweak the Blue settings?

The thing is that it "What you see in LR" is not the RAW unprocessed data! What you are seeing is the DEFAULT processed conversion. It is also very easy to change the LR default settings, and you can even set them up to be different for each body (by serial number so two identical cameras could still have different defaults) and on top of by serial number you can also specify by ISO value. So you could potentially have more than thirty different sets of default settings for each camera.It could be that you have a default for higher ISO values that has had the blue channel saturation turned right up by accident. Also check your colour profile, and associated colour settings, again it is easy to get that misset and saved as a default.

Also remember that those Angle hair light pipes, with xenon bulbs are very blue, and could easily be overexposed, and the WB will be way off from other most sources of artificial illumination. So it might not even be an actual processing problem.

Alan

i'm guessing that it is not a raw conversion or lightroom issue, but rather an out of gamut problem encountered at the time of capture. The camera basically gets confused and throws those sets of pixels into some weird spot on the spectrum. I've seen yellows get thrown into bright red sunsets, and came across something with stage lighting at one point but forget what it was.

if you can share the RAW, I can open it in Capture One and check it out. Actually, if you have a new camera, will you DNG it first? I have the converter but it probably isn't the most recent version. I can do 6D and earlier.

Still looks pretty bad

I appreciate the help! Not sure if I'm doing this right. Let me know if this works.

https://www.dropbox.co​m …z30yyne/IMG_338​7.CR2?dl=0

96whiteknight wrote in post #18115065
I appreciate the help!

no problem.

interesting result. I converted it to DNG with Adobe's DNG converter and opened it with CS4 and it looked pretty much just like your original post. Then when I opened them in Capture One I imported both images. The original CR2 looks much more realistic. Its the pic on the left what you were expecting?

Awesome. So, it's LR, then?

These are LED ring lights, no? To me it looks very similar to the problem found in many small clubs and concert venues with LED stage lighting.
Due to the technology used in lower cost LED systems, some colors, usually magentas and purples, photograph extremely saturated, to the point of blowing a channel.
This looks to be related to that.

This is where a program like Rawdigger is useful.

http://www.rawdigger.c​om/

Download the trial and load this raw image. Go through the overexposure display channel by channel. Look at the raw histograms.
You will see the raw is toasted. No converter can save it.

There's an easy solution for this: change the profile in the Calibration panel to something other than Adobe Standard

mclaren777 wrote in post #18115327
There's an easy solution for this: change the profile in the Calibration panel to something other than Adobe Standard

If as suspected the image is actually blown in one or more channel then changing the profile is very unlikely to help. The Adobe Standard profile is pretty good usually, and IMO unlikely to be the cause of this issue. Now Camera Landscape, that would be a different proposition.

Alan

96whiteknight wrote in post #18115100
Awesome. So, it's LR, then?

is theh Capture One conversion of the original RAW "correct"? I haven't really studied BMW running lights lately, but I seem to think that is what they are supposed to look like.

Redcrown wrote in post #18115265
This is where a program like Rawdigger is useful.

http://www.rawdigger.c​om/

Download the trial and load this raw image. Go through the overexposure display channel by channel. Look at the raw histograms.
You will see the raw is toasted. No converter can save it.

Assuming you opened the file with RawDigger and that the Capture One version is correct ... that would make the bold incorrect, right?