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Giulio Zanni

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Please take a look at the sky of the attached image. I only adjusted the exposure and I see banding in the sky, with some colour cast. I was doing some tests and this is a 40 second exposure with a 10 stop filter + red filter. I previously noticed some colour cast in the water when doing long exposure. Anybody experienced this?

 

Thank you, Giulio

 

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Was the file shot as RAW? How underexposed was it. Was the sky very blue? Was it on a Monochrome?

 

In my experience, shooting an intense blue sky and underexposing is the most likely scenario for banding. Its where you are likely to have least information to play with.

 

I'm not sure of the advantage of the ND filter for such a shot.

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Was the file shot as RAW? How underexposed was it. Was the sky very blue? Was it on a Monochrome?

 

In my experience, shooting an intense blue sky and underexposing is the most likely scenario for banding. Its where you are likely to have least information to play with.

 

I'm not sure of the advantage of the ND filter for such a shot.

 

It was shot in DNG compressed on a Monochrome type 246. I will do other tests with compression off. The file was not much underexposed and the banding comes up when increasing the blacks. I was doing tests with ND filters as I just got the camera and wanted to understand its limits before committing to a second body. 

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It was shot in DNG compressed on a Monochrome type 246. I will do other tests with compression off. The file was not much underexposed and the banding comes up when increasing the blacks. I was doing tests with ND filters as I just got the camera and wanted to understand its limits before committing to a second body. 

ND filters can cause colour shifts (or in your case tonal shifts) but I doubt that the use of the ND filter is significant in this case. Most likely its simply underexposing the blue info due to basic underexposure and the red filter.

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Yes this is a post processing and/or exposure problem, so make sure you are first of all converting your image to a 16 bit TIFF from RAW. It would usually happen if too little information is being stretched, so banding and posterisation occurs, but in this image it is entirely mid tones and flat with no contrast, so it's probably also under exposed. As for your colour cast, it is impossible to get from the camera RAW file without you introducing some setting or other at the post processing stage. But if your monitor isn't calibrated you may also see artificial tints of colour.

 

If it is anything other than a post processing issue you could begin by looking at the filters you've stacked together.

 

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