Originally Posted by
Michael Gerald-Yamasaki
Norm,
Greetings. Found this thread from another discussion (like Desmond ;) ).
First I want to say, I think this image is beautiful. I really like the color.
Which leads me to this... The OP image does not have blown reds. I cannot explain the histograms that show there are blown reds. But I believe the histograms that show blown reds are wrong. (wrong, wrong, wrong!)
If you don't believe me, take the sampler tool and find me some pixels that show red to be at 255. Or import your OP into Lightroom and look at that histogram. The LR histogram resembles your RAW histogram, not exactly the same, but the reds are far from blown.
Aside from all that, the reds just don't look blown. One take away from all this is that histograms have their idiosyncrasies... the algorithms used have a lot of short cuts for speed and are sometimes just wrong. Multiple ways of evaluating IQ are good.
Cheers,
-Michael-