Importing Photos and lightroom is making photos overexposed

[megank38898507]

Hoping someone can help! I have used Lightroom for 7+ years and this has never happened until yesterday… After I imported a session into Lightroom, I realized all the photos are extremely overexposed from how I shot them. When I open the RAW file outside of Lightroom, it is exposed the way I shot it (Pictures for reference). I shot these with the same Camera I’ve used for years (6D Mark ii) and use Lightroom all the time and have never had this happen to me until yesterday. I have googled, YouTubed, and attempted everything I could find, but nothing has fixed it. So I’m hoping someone here can help!! Also for reference I have tried rolling back to an older version of Lightroom… I have tried purging my cache… I have made sure I don’t have a preset turned on when importing… I have looked under preferences at camera defaults… Desperately trying to finish sessions, so all help and suggestions are appreciated!

[dj_paige]

You said you made sure there were no presets turned on at import. However, it would still be good to know what the History panel in the develop module shows, immediately after import. Show us a screen capture of the history panel. PLEASE use the "Insert Photos" icon to include your screen capture in your reply; do not attach files.

[megank38898507]

[Keith Reeder]

"PLEASE use the "Insert Photos" icon to include your screen capture in your reply; do not attach files."

Unless you want to.

DJ, you're the outlier here - stop expecting everyone else to accomodate your hang-up, please - there's nothing wrong with attaching files.

[Per Berntsen]

Image viewers (like the Windows Photos app) cannot display raw files, so they display the jpeg preview embedded in the raw file. You may have used a camera setting that darkens the image, these settings will affect the jgp preview, but are normally ignored by Lightroom, which doesn't understand them.

Please post a screenshot of the entire Lightroom window with the image open in Develop.

Make sure that the History panel is visible and expanded on the left, and the Histogram on the right.

Do not attach the screenshot, use the Insert Photos button in the toolbar to insert it directly in your post.

[Keith Reeder]

"Do not attach the screenshot"

Why not? Unless there's a specific rule against it (and if there is, fair enough - but I can't find it) they can do what they like.

[JohanElzenga]

"Do not attach the screenshot"

Why not? Unless there's a specific rule against it (and if there is, fair enough - but I can't find it) they can do what they like.

By @Keith Reeder

There is no rule against it, but most of us prefer embedded images over attached images. The reason is simple. You will see all the embedded images in one glance. Attached images can only be seen via the preview option one by one. That makes it much more difficult to compare images, for example. So if somebody wants me to compare two or more images, then I expect them to make it as easy as possible for me to do so, and that means embed them. If somebody adds a whole series of attached images, then I often won't read the post and won't respond.

And yes, I do agree that @dj_paige should switch to a different web browser if he wants to see images in this forum.

[Per Berntsen]

"Do not attach the screenshot"

Why not? Unless there's a specific rule against it (and if there is, fair enough - but I can't find it) they can do what they like.

By @Keith Reeder

@JohanElzenga beat me to it, and I agree with everything he said.

In addition, attachments often take a long time to open. I also often need to view them at exactly 100%, which is not possible in the attachment viewer (except by chance). So once the image has loaded, I have to right click it to open it in a new tab. (which to be fair, is also required with embedded images if they're larger than the viewport).

Like Johan, I tend to ignore posts that contain more than two or three embedded images – it's just too inconvenient.

[JohanElzenga]

Lightroom can apply a camera default, meaning it will add certain settings on import. These will not show in the history, so what you need to do is check your develop settings (and perhaps post a screenshot of that too). What camera profile is applied? Are there any sliders in the basic panel not set at zero? How about other panels? Anything not still at the default in there?