Your pet peeve(s) when viewing pics?

[greatgrandma]

Most of my color problems are with scanned slides.

Two scans of the same slide. The bluer one is prettier but it is sort of fuzzy and isn't as big or as crisp. I can't get that bluer cast to the better scan

The other problem is that some types of film are 'colder' than others. Ektachrome is colder than Kodachrome and I am more used to Kodachrome and I like it better. Daddy would have one camera loaded with Kodachrome and the other loaded with either black and white film or Ektachrome.

I'm not sure if the difference between these two photos is due to film or to different scanning, but the one on the left is better for me

When my sister and I were touring together one of us was always holding the baby so sometimes we only got one photo of something. So we pooled our photos and got duplicates, but the duplicates were not as true to color.

I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate of my sister's photo and the color just isn't quite right

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Most of my color problems are with scanned slides.

If your images were taken with a digital camera I would say it's a problem with white balance but film, I don't know. I have an new image editor (PhotoScape X, I have added it to Resources - it has a free version too). I bought it for my iPhone snapshots and it has all these film presets and the colours are drastically different between the presets so if these even slightly resemble the real thing, you would get differently coloured images from different film indeed.

 

[greatgrandma]

All of these were film pictures taken prior to 1965

 

[Ltdave]

I struggle with colour. I'm not good with it, but I do see when it's off. And especially greens are hard to correct. At least for me. When a bird is in the field, standing in the grass and the light isn't good then those greens usually give me a really hard time. Green is a difficult colour, when it's right, it's lovely, when it's off, it's just really bad.

the grass in the local football stadium, looks very very bright under my usual RAW to Jpeg exports so i have to really dial it back in editing. its the combination of the grass and the high pressure sodium lighting... just add Magenta to the mix, or desaturate the Green...

 

[greatgrandma]

I have been a painter in addition to being a photographer and color is very important to me. I'm not a good draftsman (that Is I can't draw very well) but I can do color. My first digital camera (a Toshiba) had a program with it called Image Expert allowed me to play with the three primary light colors (magenta, green and blue) of course that program no longer works. (colors of light are different from pigment colors where the primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. So green is a primary light color, but not a primary pigment color.

 

[Ltdave]

magenta and green
cyan and red
yellow and blue

those are the complimentary colors in light and pigment. in our print house, we had the color correction paddles just in case we were having troubles with which color was giving us troubles. i typically didnt have too much issue seeing which color i didnt want in a print, but i used them fairly often to determine how much correction to put in (for the print)

nearly 50 years as a photographer and graphic artist... funny thing, is i can do the technical drawing stuff like drafting but ARTWORK? fuggettaboutit...

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

magenta and green
cyan and red
yellow and blue

those are the complimentary colors in light and pigment. in our print house, we had the color correction paddles just in case we were having troubles with which color was giving us troubles. i typically didnt have too much issue seeing which color i didnt want in a print, but i used them fairly often to determine how much correction to put in (for the print)

nearly 50 years as a photographer and graphic artist... funny thing, is i can do the technical drawing stuff like drafting but ARTWORK? fuggettaboutit...

I know. And I always forget. Crazy thing is that in Photoshop, in Lab mode I have an action that I created years ago that gives colours a bit of a boost (I use it very sparingly). The action takes the complementary colours (in channel A and channel B) and then increase their intensity. So I know this and yet I struggle if white balance is off. I just don't think I have a good eye for colour.

 

[greatgrandma]

I only did printing in b&w but sometimes I took color negatives and did b&w prints from them. Because the film is insensitive to red (that's why darkroom lights are red) I had to increase the contrast to make red things show properly. I have to the same with photos taken underwater - the red disappears first.

 

[CraigMcM]

My biggest peeve is under- and over-exposure, especially under.
Most of the basic editors can easily correct it to bring a shot to a viewable
state of recognition, but many don't seem to care or give consideration
to how others may see a picture.

This doesn't come up much in photography-centric places like here,
but on the intarwebz in general, it's a voodoo chicken of complacency
that says 'I just wanna post it and I know what it is and I LOVE IT,
so if you don't see it then it's not for you so you can just go away, m'kay?'

So, I just say to myself, 'M'kay, I'ma gonna move out. You failed.'

 

[greatgrandma]

In the days of film, you didn't get to see your pictures right away so you would miss a chance to fix whatever your problem was. I just can't fix some of the photos that I took back then. It's different now with digital.

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