My iMac is calibrated with a spyder2. On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 04:50:54AM -0800, Rick Womer wrote:
# 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. Yup, I always shoot raw. # # 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. I carry a greycard in my pack. I haven't yet gotten a whibal, but the greycard seems to work OK. Interestingly, my grey watchband also seems to do OK. The camera tends to be pretty good at AWB in sunshine. I shot again yesterday, and used a grey card. We had scattered clouds which lent an interesting effect. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157614416872469/ 20090226-imgp1899 would be a good candidate for phony HDR software. Luka: Lightroom creates a text file for each photo you process with the history of the steps. I think Photoshop might too. Could you email that file directly to me? and I might be able to duplicate it and learn what you did. Larry # # 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. -- 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.
