When in doubt, check the internet

[plonq]

One of the features that I was sure my camera had, but I couldn't find was the manual "grey card" colour correction. I could manually dial up various colour temperatures, and select from some decent pre-sets for "tungsten", "fluorescent" and the like, but I wanted to have the option to apply the sledge hammer of colour correction when I needed it.

Today I did some searching on the net and found the answer I needed. The feature is easy enough to use, but not entirely intuitive - which is why I had not stumbled onto it earlier.

Below are two pictures that I shot in the living room this afternoon. The lighting is ambient daylight through the front window. The first picture (leftmost, or topmost depending on the width of your browser) uses the camera's automatic colour correction. These second picture (rightmost or bottommost) is manually corrected with my poor-man's grey card. I am both surprised and impressed by the results. The second picture is definitely much closer to how the scissors look in person.



It is especially noticeable in the pinks and greens in the picture.

Comments

[kfops.livejournal.com]

Great improvement over the blue-ish sheen the first picture had! Looks good!

Y'know, that's one thing with my (old) digital camera. I've never been completely happy with the colour, but I never even thought of trying to do a calibration... I just fix it by hand after.

Of course, maybe it's too old to calibrate, too.

And I'm lazy.

I look forward to seeing more great colour corrected goodness!

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I made the "grey card" on the laser printer. Hardcore photographers would probably frown at my ghetto solution, but who am I to argue if it works?