M8 Adobe Lightroom profiles?

[Zoran Milich]

Hi. I have been processing my M8 raw files in Lightroom on a weekly-calibrated monitor and I aways find my M8 files on the redish side; kinda too pinky for my taste. Does anyone know if there is an M8 profile for Lightroom? I've processed one M8 file in Capture One's v4 beta--which not only has a M8 file but also a UV-IR option--and it looked perfect; but I prefer working with Lightroom.

[rwfreund]

Are you sure it is not auto white balance gone bad?
If you are using the M8's internal auto white balance, then all bets are off.
-bob

[Morten Grathe]

You can create your own presets and save them. You can even apply the preset when importing the images.

[Zoran Milich]

Bob, yes I do have my M8 set on auto white balance but from what I understand it shouldn't matter if you are shooting raw. No? In Adobe's Lightroom I almaost always shoot a grey card either before or after I shoot my main images and thus use the grey picker in LIghtroom to balance out the colour in the image. But I always get peoples lips a little too pink or the skin slightly redish. Mind you after processing in Phase One's version 4 beta software and choosing the M8 profile with UV IR also optioned on the software--I couldn't believe how well the image came out. Too bad because I really enjoy Lightrooms workflow.

[Zoran Milich]

Morten--GREAT site by the way, love the multimedia cuba, new york and istanbul all EXCELLENT--so I shoot a colour card in different lighting situations with my M8 and then grey balance it out in Lightroom and make a preset for each lighting situation for example: daylight profile, tungsten profile, etc...??

[Morten Grathe]

Thanks Zoran.
The whitebalance-presets is an option, but you can do even more.
I find that many times the reds are too dominant in faces. Then you can make a preset with less red saturation.
You don't even have to know exactly wich color you want to adjust. If you use the target-correcter, it's possible to select directly in the image.
This is also a great way to control bw-output.

[Zoran Milich]

Morten, thank you for the tip--I'm off to do presets right now. I find that for black and white outputs from the M8 through Lightroom a bit to digital looking. What I do is process in colour and then run the images through a software called EXPOSURE by a company called ALIENSKIN. They have several profiles to imitate all sort of black and white films and I find the results excellent!

[guy_mancuso]

Lightroom has a tendency to be more red than normal in faces . I would follow Mortens advice above which is what i have discovered also to control it better

[stephengilbert]

Zoran,

In case Morten's suggestion wasn't clear, that little circle he marked acticates what LR calls the Targeting Adjustment Tool (TAT). When you activate it, you can adjust colors in a photo with your cursor, and the sliders will move as you drag the cursor up and down in an area of your photo.

As Adobes describes it, "Click the Targeted Adjustment tool in the upper left of the panel, move the pointer over an area in the photo that you want to adjust, and then click the mouse. Drag the pointer, or press the up and down arrow keys to make the adjustment."

Even if you choose to use the sliders, the TAT will sometin=mes show you that something you want to change has more colors in it than you thought.

Steve