Wow, I actually remembered!
November 20, 2008
So miffed were we with the disastrous night shots of the other day (er… evening) that mate and I decided to have another bash at it. And this time we actually remembered to bring tripods! Wonders will never cease.
All well and good ‘cept (and I can’t speak for mate here cos I ain’t seen any he’s uploaded yet) Flickr decided to mess me around this time!
Bedford has this bridge for traffic coming in and out of the town centre from the south. And at night its illuminated with blue floodlights. Gorgeous blue floodlights. Looks real pretty it does. So a significant number of the shots this evening were of that same bridge.
Looked brilliant they did… on camera and in Lightroom. So I processed the RAW files and converted to JPEGs… and they still looked brilliant. So I uploaded to Flickr and… what on earth happened?
The blue looks terrible. Oversaturated, garish, nasty. Dunno what Flickr’s done to them, but they just ain’t right. Consequently I’ve deleted the worst offenders, which of course has reduced by a significant amount this most recent upload batch.
One day perhaps everything will work out as I intend 
November 20, 2008 at 17:59 41
I see another trip to Flickr is in order to see what all the fuss is about….
November 21, 2008 at 1:11 57
I’ve noticed that some of my pics will look fabulous on my camera, LR or in other software, then when I upload them to flickr, they look okay at best. I, like you, have no idea what flickr does to them…
I think your pics look great.
November 21, 2008 at 3:28 26
The bridge looks so nice. What time do you take the pictures because the sky is such a nice pretty blue, I can never time my night photos right to get that sky color.
November 21, 2008 at 4:06 44
I’ve suspected Flickr messes with them for quite a while now Tam. Seem to recollect reading something in the help forum there ages ago about a bit of sharpening being applied, but it looks to me somewhat akin to Lightroom’s “vibrancy” tweak. What’s really annoying is when it affects one particular colour so dramatically though.
Took them between 4.45 and 5.30 in the afternoon Maggie.