One more thought, re white balance: If you're shooting RAW (as you should be, with how demanding of yourself and your photos you seem to be) there is no point screwing around with white balance in the camera. Just set it to AWB. Make adjustments in post-processing.
For a reference in difficult light, I carry one of those thingies in the top of my bag that is about 6in/15cm square, a reflector on one side, and a white/grey/black card on the other. It is easy to pull it out and take a quick shot, just holding it out in front of me (focus doesn't even matter); and then use the Lightroom eyedropper on it to get the WB settings to use for the set. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Thu, 2/26/09, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: shooting green > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 1:52 PM > For what it's worth, the monitor it looked overly punchy > on is the one > that is calibrated. A year old 24" iMac. I wonder if > it's a function > of the monitor. > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:31:30PM -0500, [email protected] > wrote: > # In a message dated 2/26/2009 9:09:17 A.M. Pacific > Standard Time, > # [email protected] writes: > # Apart from trying again with a tripod, and maybe trying > to set > # exposure and WB off a grey card, do people have any > recommedations? > # > # ============ > # Just one. Cough. You seem to be shooting a lot of test > shots, so I'd > # suggest, just forget all that and shoot from your gut > and have fun. Go for the > # photos, don't worry about the equipment so much. > > These weren't supposed to be test shots. I've been > looking at that > cliff and hillside for two years, trying to figure out how > to shoot > it. I finally figured out a composition that I liked with > the cliff > and the trees in bloom, and what should be the easy part > doesn't seem > to be quite right. > > Then again, after getting the annual yesterday, maybe my > standards are > being set too high. > > And just to prove that I am also shooting "for > fun" > > Here's another shot that I've been playing with: > http://flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157614457075932/ > > I keep a bike at the office to ride to lunch when weather > and time > permit. It's parked next to venetian blinds and I liked > how the > narrow bands of light reflected off the spokes. They do > sort of > continue my theme of shots that didn't quite work the > way I had > envisioned, so I need to try again, once I figure out what > it is that > I really want. > > Also, just when I was going to transfer yesterday's > shots onto my > computer, I looked over and saw some rocks that my > girlfriend was > warming on the floor heater. I'll try to post a couple > of those. I was > playing around a bit with different lenses: 31, 40 and > 50mm. > > But, since I didn't even get home from work until > almost 11, I never > finished the sort and choose, much less the final > processing, portions > of the job. > > > > -- > Photographs are like sentences, the best ones have both > subjects and verbs. > Larry Colen [email protected] > http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
