Re: Sometimes you just *have* to color-correct your images?

2012-12-19 Thread Charles Robinson
On Dec 18, 2012, at 21:12 , John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: I never use AWB. I set the camera to Sunny WB leave it. Sunny WB is going to be wrong, but at least it's always consistently wrong in the same direction. AWB is going to be wrong wandering all over the place. NO two

Re: Sometimes you just *have* to color-correct your images…

2012-12-19 Thread Boris Liberman
On 12/17/2012 9:33 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: Pretty straightforward. 1. Shot in RAW 2. Pulled up image in LR 3. Changed WB from As Shot to AUTO and noticed it still wasn't quite right. 4. Grabbed the Temp slider and pushed it to the right until my skin looked normal. Final settings: Temp:

Re: Sometimes you just *have* to color-correct your images…

2012-12-18 Thread Jos from Holland
Hi Charles, My thoughts: The human eye-brain combination has a very intelligent white-balancing system; a photograph of the lady sitting under a green sun shade, shows a greenish skin, but with your own eyes you see correct color because your brain knows that skin is not green and concludes

Re: Sometimes you just *have* to color-correct your images?

2012-12-18 Thread John Sessoms
I never use AWB. I set the camera to Sunny WB leave it. Sunny WB is going to be wrong, but at least it's always consistently wrong in the same direction. AWB is going to be wrong wandering all over the place. NO two shots will be wrong in the same way. With the fixed WB I have an easier time

Sometimes you just *have* to color-correct your images…

2012-12-17 Thread Charles Robinson
A little example of how late in the day we were at the Valley of Fire National park. The first uncorrected image shows what the color of the light was - and holding the preview screen of the camera next to my hand, it looked right on. This was about 20 minutes after the sun had completely

Re: Sometimes you just *have* to color-correct your images…

2012-12-17 Thread Ann Sanfedele
On 12/17/2012 11:38, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Quite interesting. Thanks for posting both images. Where is the Valley of Fire National Park? That's one I have never heard about before. Outside Las Vegas a bit ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Sometimes you just *have* to color-correct your images…

2012-12-17 Thread Charles Robinson
On Dec 17, 2012, at 10:38 , Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: Quite interesting. Thanks for posting both images. Where is the Valley of Fire National Park? That's one I have never heard about before. About 50 miles NE of Las Vegas. And one of the best parts about my 5-day

Re: Sometimes you just *have* to color-correct your images…

2012-12-17 Thread Boris Liberman
Looks like a rather serious case of color correction. Charles, would you mind sharing with us how exactly you did the correction? Thanks. On 12/17/2012 6:35 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: A little example of how late in the day we were at the Valley of Fire National park. The first uncorrected

Re: Sometimes you just *have* to color-correct your images…

2012-12-17 Thread Charles Robinson
On Dec 17, 2012, at 11:38 , Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like a rather serious case of color correction. Charles, would you mind sharing with us how exactly you did the correction? Pretty straightforward. 1. Shot in RAW 2. Pulled up image in LR 3. Changed WB from As Shot

Re: Sometimes you just *have* to color-correct your images.

2012-12-17 Thread kwaller
: Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com Subject: Re: Sometimes you just *have* to color-correct your images. On Dec 17, 2012, at 10:38 , Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: Quite interesting. Thanks for posting both images. Where is the Valley of Fire National Park? That's one I have

Re: Sometimes you just *have* to color-correct your images…

2012-12-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Charles. I thought I knew all the National Parks in that area, but that is one I missed. I look for it next time I'm out that way. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: On Dec 17, 2012,

Re: Sometimes you just *have* to color-correct your images.

2012-12-17 Thread Charles Robinson
On Dec 17, 2012, at 13:55 , kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Last time I was there it was a State Park, in fact it is the largest State park in Nevada was the first in Nevada.. http://parks.nv.gov/parks/valley-of-fire-state-park/ Well worh the trip. Ooops. Still jet-lagged. Yes.