Adding warmth in Lightroom

[jogi]

Greetings forum members,

 

I shoot with an a6000 and A7Rii (with Sony and Zeiss lenses) since a couple months back. I used Canon for

5 years and recently got rid of my old Canon stuff. There might be a similar topic about this over here somewhere i reckon.

 

I'm loving the possibilities and quality of both my Sony cameras, but like many others 

I'm not quite used to the colors of the RAW files. I wanted to see if you guys have 

any tips on adding some warmth to the images in Lightroom.

Why not share a preset!

 

Some stuff I often do when working with Sony RAW files:

 

-Bump up color temp+tint

-Reduce whites/highlights a bit

-Increase vibrance if needed

-Sharpness +40

-Camera calibration profile: Camera standard / Red Primary +5

 

If you would like to check out my website it's: www.kosk.fi

90% of the pictures on it are shot on a Canon 5D mk2 (the rest Pentax/Minolta film or EOS M).

Btw I mainly shoot portraits nowadays. 

 

Cheers!

Jogi

 

 

 

 

[Gilgenberg]

Hallo Jogi

 

thank you for your infos!

 

you have a very nice website!

 

and great pictures

 

i had also problems with to cold pictures and adjusted the auto white balance in the camera more to the warm side

 

this is very easy

 

you go to white balance page (klick WB) 

 

you select AWB

 

than you click with the dial again to the right side (WB) 

 

than you come to the white balance adjust page

 

i have the A7 and added only 1 step to the A direction so i don´t know how much you need for your camera

 

all the best Andreas

[yarmmcd]

I hardly ever use auto white balance it tries to make everything grey, so any nice colour cast for example a sunrise sky is not rendered. I always use Cloudy or Daylight setting, saturation +1. It can always be changed back later if shooting in Raw.

[SteliosA]

Greetings forum members,

 

I shoot with an a6000 and A7Rii (with Sony and Zeiss lenses) since a couple months back. I used Canon for

5 years and recently got rid of my old Canon stuff. There might be a similar topic about this over here somewhere i reckon.

 

I'm loving the possibilities and quality of both my Sony cameras, but like many others 

I'm not quite used to the colors of the RAW files. I wanted to see if you guys have 

any tips on adding some warmth to the images in Lightroom.

Why not share a preset!

 

Some stuff I often do when working with Sony RAW files:

 

-Bump up color temp+tint

-Reduce whites/highlights a bit

-Increase vibrance if needed

-Sharpness +40

-Camera calibration profile: Camera standard / Red Primary +5

 

If you would like to check out my website it's: www.kosk.fi

90% of the pictures on it are shot on a Canon 5D mk2 (the rest Pentax/Minolta film or EOS M).

Btw I mainly shoot portraits nowadays. 

 

Cheers!

Jogi

Hello Jogi,

 

Have you tried Capture One (express for Sony)? It is free.

I didn't like the colors from my a6000 in Lightroom .They never looked "right" to me. 

The colors in Capture One are right on after the Import, with no extra adjustments .

I use Lightroom now, only for high iso images. The noise reduction is better, for my taste.

[Apollwnios]

Best color congratulations !!!!

 

[jogi]

Great tips, thanks a lot everyone! Adjusting white balance in camera seems to be a good place to start when using AWB. Looks better already, at least when looking in the EVF.

 

Capture One seems to render color well even though I am totally new to the interface.

I might use it when i'm having trouble nailing the colour.

 

Have been trying to install camera profiles on my LR, so far unsuccessfully