Getting the Colors correct

[astroNikon]

A couple weeks ago I shot one of my kids soccer games (nikon d7000).
My daughter's team uses this super bright neon green jerseys.

The second time I used my d600 FF camera and the super neon green was much more washed out. Now I'm trying to fix the colors, if I can to be more of the annoying neon green.

My question is, what adjustments in Lightroom do I need to do to go more towards the bright neon green color ?
I've fiddled around but haven't gotten close to it.

I use LightRoom v.4.4 and the photos are based in the RAW format.

The Super Bright Annoying Neon Green


The washed out green

 

[Braineack]

I prefer the washed out image; in regards to the neon green handling.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Was the second one at a different time of day? maybe facing a different direction? The shirts in the second probably look the way they do because of being in the bright sunlight. Notice where there's some shadow on the shoulder and how different the green looks in shade. The tone or value is different (lighter in the brighter sunlight).

The color could look different depending on the time of day and the direction of the sun and which way you're facing and shooting. Try different vantage points if you can walk around and shoot from different places around the field. You could go early, see what background you'll get from different locations, and do some test shots.

The first one looks like you were in much closer, so that could have made a difference too in the light coming into your camera.

 

[KmH]

You would want to make a local adjustment to just the jerseys rather than a global adjustment to the entire image.

Use the TAT (Targeted Adjustment Tool) and the the HSL/Color/B&W panel
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 * Fine-tune image colors with HSL sliders
Adobe - Search: targeted adjustment tool

You might also find the Adjustment Brush useful:
Adobe - Search: adjustment brush

 

[astroNikon]

Was the second one at a different time of day? maybe facing a different direction? The shirts in the second probably look the way they do because of being in the bright sunlight. Notice where there's some shadow on the shoulder and how different the green looks in shade. The tone or value is different (lighter in the brighter sunlight).

The color could look different depending on the time of day and the direction of the sun and which way you're facing and shooting. Try different vantage points if you can walk around and shoot from different places around the field. You could go early, see what background you'll get from different locations, and do some test shots.

The first one looks like you were in much closer, so that could have made a difference too in the light coming into your camera.

Well yes, they are soccer games were on different weeks, times and locations. But if I recall I think the first one (with the bright neon green) was on a more consistently brighter day.

All my first game shots have the bright neon green.
All the 2nd game were subdued green .. at least it's consistent.

 

[astroNikon]

You would want to make a local adjustment to just the jerseys rather than a global adjustment to the entire image.

Use the TAT (Targeted Adjustment Tool) and the the HSL/Color/B&W panel
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 * Fine-tune image colors with HSL sliders
Adobe - Search: targeted adjustment tool

You might also find the Adjustment Brush useful:
Adobe - Search: adjustment brush

I was hoping to learn about LR more ... which I'll check out the links

This was consistent for all the photos from the 2nd game .. too many for me to bother making local adjustments.
But I'll fine tune with the sliders .. I fiddled with them without much luck but then, I'm just learning how to use all those color sliders, etc.

The first game all was a neon green. All the 2nd game were subdued green.
The kids have bought all neon socks, etc to match. Hurts the eyes sometimes.

Thanks

 

[sm4him]

I can't help with the LR aspect. I have the software, but have YET to get up the nerve to even try it, I don't know why, it just scares me.

However, I'd like to suggest a way to make sure that your daughter's team colors show much more consistently in the future. Put her on a different team. Something with a nice pale blue, perhaps, or a maybe even a green & white striped thing going on. ANYTHING but that godawful neon. I would probably not even be able to shoot an entire game with that much neon on the field at once. Is their strategy to just blind the players on the opposing teams, so they can win more games?? :lmao:

 

[runnah]

You want to adjust the luminance. I deal with safety colors all the damn time and it sucks. They often get blown out or cause annoying color cast off when using flash.

 

[astroNikon]

I can't help with the LR aspect. I have the software, but have YET to get up the nerve to even try it, I don't know why, it just scares me.

However, I'd like to suggest a way to make sure that your daughter's team colors show much more consistently in the future. Put her on a different team. Something with a nice pale blue, perhaps, or a maybe even a green & white striped thing going on. ANYTHING but that godawful neon. I would probably not even be able to shoot an entire game with that much neon on the field at once. Is their strategy to just blind the players on the opposing teams, so they can win more games?? :lmao:

LR is scary. I owned it for 9 months before I even tried to use it. I installed it and I was clueless how to use it.
Though today, I looked at some other software and they are kinda designed in the seem theme as LR .. so .. it's the wave of the wave of the future.

Yes, I also understand your concept of a different color team. They weren't this color last year. matter of fact my daughter was on *my* team last year as I coached a team. I had no choice in the jersey color, but seeing as the coach is the VP .. he kinda gets a choice and liked it. Though his other teams don't have neon.

My son went from a nice medium green jersey to a dark green jersey .. talk about the shadows in bright light. Gosh ... All the jerseys last year were easy to shoot. This year, it's just different problems.

 

[astroNikon]

You want to adjust the luminance. I deal with safety colors all the damn time and it sucks. They often get blown out or cause annoying color cast off when using flash.

Hey, I think I know where that's at .... I'll give it a try. Thanks :thumbup:

 

[KmH]

Lightroom's Develop module is Adobe Camera Raw - ACR.

ACR first appeared with Photoshop 7 in 2002 - The wave of the future hit shore 12 years ago.
Lightroom started shipping in February of 2007 and that first version of LR (and Photoshop CS 3 Camera Raw) used ACR 4.

Today's Photoshop CC (June '13) is Photoshop 14. Photoshop CC Camera Raw and Lightroom 5's Develop module both use ACR 8 (latest is 8.3).