When I started to edit this photo with an orange shirt, I thought I would give the colors more oomph. The original was fairly blah, but I liked the shot so I thought this would be a great chance to dial it up a notch. On my well calibrated wide-gamut display it was perfect – an orange shirt with a little extra punch to it. However, when down-converting from 16-bit ProPhoto to 8-bit sRGB that new shade of orange fell out of the sRGB color gamut and became red. Now I still like the final shot, but it’s a little more saturated and brighter than I edited. Fortunately the print is perfect, but what you see is a super red shirt that requires sunglasses to view – lesson learned!
I shot this with my Canon 5D Mark II using my 100mm macro lens for 1/125 sec at f/8.0 on ISO 160. I also used my new lighting setup in my studio to get fantastic light on this one.
Learn more about this shot in my blog article “Photo Thoughts–Giving Dull Images Some Punch”.
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