Why do my RAW moon photos change color in Lightroom after import?

Asked 9/28/2015

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When I import RAW photos of a blood moon into Lightroom, the colors look badly altered compared with the camera JPEG and how the files appear in Preview on my Mac. If I import only the JPEG, it looks fine. If I open the RAW in another program, it also looks fine.

This seems to happen only with RAW files in Lightroom, and it looks like Lightroom is applying a different rendering on import. What Lightroom setting could cause this, and how can I make the RAW match the camera JPEG more closely?

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Lightroom is likely applying its own RAW rendering rather than your camera’s JPEG-style processing. With RAW files, Lightroom does not show the in-camera look unless you choose a matching camera profile, and very dark scenes like a lunar eclipse can also look odd if auto settings were applied.

Try this:

  • In Develop, click Reset to make sure no exposure/basic adjustments were automatically applied.
  • Check that the Basic sliders are at their defaults.
  • In Camera Calibration (or the profile area in newer Lightroom versions), switch from Adobe’s default profile to a camera-matching profile.

That usually makes the RAW preview look much closer to the camera JPEG and to what other software may be showing.

If that fixes it, you can save it as the default for that camera/file type so future imports use the same profile automatically.

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It's possible that your RAW images are just being auto-exposed by Lightroom. Images that are mostly blackness can cause the auto-exposure algorithm to do some silly things, since it tries to even out the histogram and most of the luminance values are squashed in a big peak against the left edge of the histogram.

Can you try going to the Develop tab and pressing Reset on the bottom right, or making sure that the sliders in the Basic section are all set to zero?

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