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Pink band in night shots

D7100 night shot (4-frame stitch). If you look full-size, You can see what appears to be a little bit of "pink tone" (and some noise, of course) above the 4 cranes farthest away. But that might also be due to fiddling with the colors/saturation... or the combined "temperature" of all the various lights... or whatever. Picture was taken 6 years ago, so I can't retrace my steps and say exactly what I did or didn't do. I probably pushed this relatively hard in post to bring out shadows/detail.

T18-Barcelona-Ulsan-D7100 by J.E. Frantzen, on Flickr
 
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1971_M5 said:
I shot with the D7100 for 5-6 years (from 2013 to early 2019) and did not encounter this issue. I took quite a few night pictures with relatively long exposures. Of course, I had to deal with some noise (also in the daytime blue sky) and I did encounter the "banding" issue when pulling shadows (heavily) in post... especially on long/night exposures. These were a couple of the reasons why I bought a good-condition (used) D810 in December 2018. But I never encountered a "pink band" in the D7100 images. On second thought, there may have been some pink "tone" coming through (rarely) -- but that was only when I really stomped hard on the RAW files (so I learned when to back off). But it wasn't a distinct "band" as you say). I really liked/like the D7100. Still have it. The Toshiba sensor was a departure for Nikon and in some ways I has a unique "look" that sets it apart. I remember when I got the D7100 (after my D300 was stolen)... and I saw the first 24 MP NEF on my large monitor, I said "Wow." In a good way. Does the "pink band" exist in the OOC JPEGS, or is it only in your PP'd images?
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To tell you the truth, I don't know as I only shoot in RAW. I'm going to make a jpeg out of a recent night shot and post it. It's not a 'band' per se, but a pink area on the bottom that I always have to burn in (which doesn't always work).
 
IIRC, the D7100 has 2 card slots -- just like the D810. CF and SD. On the menu, I mapped the NEF's to the CF card and JEPGS to the SD card. I'm thinking... let the CAMERA generate the JPEG on it's own (rather than having you do it -- even with just the software/PP defaults). See what the camera itself produces with it's own internal process. If the OOC camera JPEGS are fine, then you can possibly isolate the issue to your PP software/workflow?
 
1971_M5 said:
IIRC, the D7100 has 2 card slots -- just like the D810. CF and SD. On the menu, I mapped the NEF's to the CF card and JEPGS to the SD card. I'm thinking... let the CAMERA generate the JPEG on it's own (rather than having you do it -- even with just the software/PP defaults). See what the camera itself produces with it's own internal process. If the OOC camera JPEGS are fine, then you can possibly isolate the issue to your PP software/workflow?
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OK, thanks - I'll try that tonight.
 
Barbie Heid said:
OK, thanks - I'll try that tonight.
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1971_M5 said:
IIRC, the D7100 has 2 card slots -- just like the D810. CF and SD. On the menu, I mapped the NEF's to the CF card and JEPGS to the SD card. I'm thinking... let the CAMERA generate the JPEG on it's own (rather than having you do it -- even with just the software/PP defaults). See what the camera itself produces with it's own internal process. If the OOC camera JPEGS are fine, then you can possibly isolate the issue to your PP software/workflow?
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Here's a jpeg from tonight, only lightened a bit, and the pink is barely noticeable. But when I import from DxO into Luminar as a dng, it's horrible looking. What does this mean?

NIK_1474 test.jpg
 
Hmmmm. I don't have an answer. My workflow is pretty simple, so I probably can't help in regard to what you're describing... DNG's from Luminar into DxO. I shoot... and, as described above, save the NEF's to the CF card and JPEGS to the SD card (as a backup). I use NX Studio to sort/cull and generally weed things out (NX Studio is very good for this... for a variety of reasons). Then, I process the NEFs using either Capture One or Photoshop Elements. Mostly Capture One. Save to JPEG. Rudimentary!
 
1971_M5 said:
Hmmmm. I don't have an answer. My workflow is pretty simple, so I probably can't help in regard to what you're describing... DNG's from Luminar into DxO. I shoot... and, as described above, save the NEF's to the CF card and JPEGS to the SD card (as a backup). I use NX Studio to sort/cull and generally weed things out (NX Studio is very good for this... for a variety of reasons). Then, I process the NEFs using either Capture One or Photoshop Elements. Mostly Capture One. Save to JPEG. Rudimentary!
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OK, thanks. I think I'll try skipping the DxO and go straight to Luminar and see if that changes anything. As it is, there's known issues in going from DxO to Luminar, so it's worth a try.
 
Just to wrap this up, it has something to do with my DxO. I shot jpeg and raw and by not running it through DxO, I only got a faint pink area that I can probably work with. Not sure what to think about that, but since there's already a known issue between DxO and Luminar Neo, maybe I'll shoot them an email. Thanks all!
 
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