Gerbera Daisy ... How To Save The Reds

[Charles Wesley]

Hoping some one will know if the reds can be improved on this photo. I was not as careful as I should have been with the reds on this one. Most like occured with the use of my flash. My bad...

Canon 5D, EF 100- 400 mm f/4.5- 5.6 L IS lens, 550 EX flash and Bogen tripod.

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Charlie Wesley
St. Augustine Beach, FL

EOS - 1D, 5D Mk 11, Sekonic L- 358 incident/ flash meter, Sigma 15- 30 mm EX Aspherical DG DF f/3.5- 4.5, Canon EF 28- 135 mm.f/3.5-5.6 IS, Canon EF 70 -200 mm.L f/4, Sigma 180 mm. HSM f/3.5 EX DG APO Macro IF AF, Canon EF 100- 400 mm. F/4.5- 5.6 L IS, Canon EF 500 mm. f/4 L IS, 1.4 TC, 12 & 25 mm. Ext. tubes, Better Beamer, Canon 550 EX flash, Bogen 3221 tripod and Bogen tripod with Wimberley mount.<O:p</O:p<O:p</O:p

[Ken Childs]

I'm probably the wrong person to be commenting on how to handle reds. :)

Since most dig cameras have problems with reds, I think the best way to handle the problem is to desaturate them in PP. I just had a quick play with your shot in CS3 and dropping the reds -20 seemed to do the trick. It seemed a little dark so I then used the S/H tool to brighten things up.

[Julie Kenward]

Charlie, I did the same thing as Ken only I opened it in Adobe Camera Raw and moved the reds down 18 points but that left them flat so I adjusted the oranges as well, moving the orange hue to -7 and then +8 on the saturation. If you have ACR try adjusting the luminance of the reds and oranges as well until you get a color tone you like.

[Anita Bower]

I love the sharpness of the details, and the gorgeous red against blue. It loooks a little dark. :)

[Vida van der Walt]

Love the red/blue combination and the great detail, comp of this Charles.:)