Year In Pictures: 2010/09/21 - A question of balance.

[plonq]

Here is a good example showing why I spend so much effort in doing colour balance in my photos. The one on the left is taken with the camera's colour balance set to "Auto". The one on the right is set to Manual, and I used the grey card in the background as a reference. All things considered, the one on the right is pretty good - if a bit on the cool side.

Incidentally, this is also why I hate shooting under CF lights. They seem to put out just about the worst lighting for colour photography. I admit that some of the black and white pictures I have posted are because I gave up trying to balance the colour and simply removed it. I did not do that here because it would have defeated the purpose of this shot.



Other than the colour balance, all other settings on these shots were the same: ISO250, f/2.8 at 1/60th of a second. Other than cropping them and pasting them together, I did no other software modifications to these pictures. These are the jpegs as they came from the camera.

Comments

[dalesql.livejournal.com]

If you think the CF lighting is bad, just wait until they start installing "white" led lighting units. Spectrum on them is even worse.

[hartree.livejournal.com]

A question of balance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBsdHoTdOmc