Auto develop way off?

This reminds me: Is there any way to disable that auto develope feature? I look at the RAW files and they look fine, but after uploading them to Lightroom, the program automatically makes a bunch of wacky adjustments I  do not like.

PYarnall wrote:

 

Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?

A simple forum search would have turned up the other threads.

What an amazing help you've been, Lee Jay.

christianbobak wrote:

 

What an amazing help you've been, Lee Jay.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/English_proverbs#G

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

Your own question is unrelated to this thread, and since it's the most frequently-asked frequently-asked-question, perhaps you could visit the forum FAQ and have a look at the top of page 2.

Of course, the time you spent typing all that out, you could have just answered the question, but then I guess that would have meant passing up the opportunity to demonstrate for us your vast mental prowess in being able to post a glib response.

Okay smart guy. Here is a copy and paste from the FAQ. Maybe it's because I'm just a retard, or whatever, but I don't see an answer to my question, which is how does one stop Lightroom from doing that:

Why does the color and or tone of my image change after import?

Q - Why does the color and/or tone of my image change after import?

Response courtesy of Jeff Schewe:

A - When you import into Lightroom the first thumbnails you will see appear

are the embedded thumbnails in your images. In the case of raw files, the

thumbnails are automatically generated by your camera but based only on your

camera's settings, not Lightroom's default settings for your camera.

After importing and depending on Preview settings (whether you chose to

generate "full-sized" preview upon import), Lightroom will generate a thumbnail and

preview based upon Lightrooms default settings for your camera-unless you

also chose to import while applying a Develop preset.

Why don't they match? Because cameras processed thumbnails are based upon

the camera company's defaults, and the odds are that the Lightroom

interpretation of the same image data will be different.

Which is correct? Technically, in the case of a raw file, there is no

"correct" answer. Raw files need to be rendered.

One of the advantages of shooting raw is that the resulting raw capture is

open to various renderings without any destruction to the original

data-meaning you can change and alter the image to make it look the way YOU

want.

If you are constantly altering the settings for images a certain way, it may

be that you should create a Develop preset so you can automatically apply

that when you import. Adjusting the general settings such as Brightness and

Contrast or Saturation or Vibrance or in the Calibrate panel, (the way in

which colors are rendered) can be saved as a user named setting that you can

apply when importing image from your camera.

It should be noted however, that image or scene specific settings may still

need to be applied image by image.

Note: above discussion also applies to images shot with B&W settings in camera.

Quote " which is how do you stop Lightroom from doing that?".

You cant.....

because Lightroom software has a different chef than your camera manufacturer and he does not have access to their recipe. Simple.

Why would you pay a lot of money for Adobe to provide you with a raw processor that provides you with the same rendition of the raw file from your camera as the free software provided by your camera manufacturer.

Surely you are expecting to recieve some value for you money. What makes you think that the rendition from your camara is closer to "reality" than the one from Lightroom.

Your camera manufacturer is only producing a rendition that they believe is more "pleasing" to the user.

In the days of film, negative and slide, you had Kodak, Fuji, Agfa, etc, with each having multiple variations to choose from, thats what allows the user to be creative and not be a clone.

DdeGannes wrote:

 

What makes you think that the rendition from your camara is closer to "reality" than the one from Lightroom.

 

 

Because it looks ten times better than what Lightroom thinks it looks like, and it actually looks quite a bit closer to what I saw with my naked eye.

To have images imported in Lr look same as camera/nx2:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4320510#4320510

Just for the sake of completeness: there is a tick in the preference settings to apply full auto-develop.

To my taste this should be off.

If you see very strange results from Lightroom it might be worth while to quickly check the setting.

Going back to the OP topic: i find auto in LR4-develop inconsistent: sometimes really good, sometimes far off, which can be both to under- or over-exposure side.

I should mention perhaps that I strive to expose-to-the-right: usually an exposure bias of +2/3 if not more carefully chosen for farther to the limit of burning out highlights. The image-adaptive nature of PV2012 deals quite marvellously with that and almost never do I need to apply -2/3 exposure, as one might expect with my in-camera bias.

Partial auto for blacks and whites is often preferable to full auto (i.e. Holding shift while double-clicking on the slider label).

Full auto rarely does a good job on the Nikon D3S, but more often on the D300S and even more often on the Canon G12 and S90. Camera profile vs. Adobe Standard calibration as first default is also a question I answer differently for each of these cameras.

Cornelia

Hey Christian, drop the snotty attitude, eh?

I'm telling you, auto-tone works poorly because it's programmed to cinch up the highlights in the histogram every time, which is real world practice (contrary to common misconceptions) is not desirable much of the time, and often will produce horrible results. This is why it always overexposes!