Capturing red

[armando_m]

I always seem to have trouble capturing intense reds, as I always seem to saturate them

On this photo I had the camera on spot exposure on the bigger flower and still had to do EV -2 1/3 before the red histogram would stay off the right edge

Yeah this one has a particularly dark background but I had taken photos where every other color is fine but the intense reds, and if I compensate for the red then everything else starts to look to dark, do not know what I might do to help this


Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 35 mm
ISO Speed 400
Exposure Bias -7/3 EV
Flash No Flash

C&C welcome

[Anbesol]

I have noticed before that default saturation settings on nikon gear tends to oversaturate reds. I'd try reducing your cameras saturation setting.

But the reds you got here are very good anyway, I'd layer mask the bg to brighten it up without messing up the reds, the stamens may make this difficult though.