Need advice

Was in Dublin recently - had horrific problems with the light from overhead Halogen [ ? they glowed red !! ] heaters.

Am going back this weekend with the K-30 and could do with advice as to how I can avoid these problems. Am , for speed, proposing to shoot entirely in P . Yes turning off these darn heaters is the answer but as there are 6 of them , folk keep turning them back on !

Here is one I shot on the K-x


There are others which are far worse I found that if I bumped up the ISO it helped - but so far I'm not finding that too easy on the K-30 [ can't see why not - but so far I've not had much success doing that,

This is straight out of the camera Shot in RAW and exported as jpeg ISO 800 f3.5 shutter1/13 21mm, no flash

I think you have three options:
1) Turn them off as you suggest or at least try to keep them as out of shot as you can.
2) Reduce their contribution to the light by overpowering them as much as possible with the other sources (windows, candles,flash). If you have control over the lighting that is.
3) Shoot in raw and be prepared to deal with it in post processing. Taking lots of shots from exactly the same position (tripod) may help with this as might reuse editing masks if you can't do it all with filter/curve tools.

P.S. I personally find the purplish light spill (presumably from that sparkly thing in the bottom right hand corner?) much more objectional than that from overhead.

Rgds,
Rob.

The sparkly thing was a Christmas tree Had both blue and white lights - we managed to stop the flashing since it was not in sync with the tree on the other side

I could have put on some very very red pictures - they have been deleted as I could do nothing at all with them .

I always shoot in RAW and PP in Aperture - I'm by no means an expert with that but can usually manage to deal with most problems I have found - these Halogens really beat me - they were really strong.

I can' t help with the lighting problem, but if you need to find a few places or pubs to visit, please let me know.
Hope you have a great time.
Is this photo in a Greek or Russian Orthodox Church?
Regards

Ciaran

You could try shooting in JPEG and using the Tungsten setting, or even AWB and then being content to let some of the warmth in.

In Photoshop, extreme redness can be reduced by using Photo Filter, probably the 80A, and aadjusting its intensity until it is more acceptable.

I wouldn't personally remove all the redness as that's a characteristic of the light and what the scene looks like.

Ciaran - it's in the Ukrainian Church in the Oratory of Holy Cross College in Clonliffe. They are a very very welcoming Community there.

John I don't use Photoshop - will look for a filter in Aperture

I did try the various WB settings and they just didn't work at all It was in AWB

Hi TT

If there is a colour correction option in apeture maybe you could reduce the red channel and see if that helps

Can't help as to why it happened though - seems a bit odd

Cheers


Stu

Thanks Stuey - I'll check that next time I start up Aperture - that hadn't struck me - I don't usually have to fiddle with colour correction.
Believe me - the colour given out from those heaters was very very red