
Originally Posted by
Mitch Haimov
I'm a little late to the party on this one, Anita, but thought I'd throw out another idea for dealing with saturated yellows (and reds). I've found that if I set my camera to display the R, G, and B histograms individually they lead me to different (darker) exposures than does the brightness histogram in cases where there is a significant portion of the frame devoted to saturated yellows or reds. That is, if you base your exposure on the brightness histogram such that you just avoid clipping highlights then look at the histograms for the individual channels, you will see quite a bit of clipping. In this way, I avoid the need to address over-saturated colors during PP. Don't know that this is "better" than the other suggestions (could potentially lead to more noise issues in shadows because everything will be darker), but I do like the idea of preventing problems at the time of exposure rather than fixing them during PP.