Nice gallery! Shoot RAW. You'll love it even more!
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Tue, 4/28/09, Nick Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > I shot a presentation on the animals of Australia that was > held at our > public library last night. > > I wasn't happy with the results from the auto white > balance and after > a few frames I decided to set a custom white balance. > > And I'm really impressed. Pentax's custom white > balance is so much > easier to set than Canon's. > > With Canon you shoot your reference shot. Then find the > menu for > setting the custom balance, then find the reference image > you shot and > select it. Then you select the custom white balance option. > > I had never read the manual on the Pentax white balance, so > I just > selected custom WB from the WB menu. It asked if I wanted > to shoot a > reference image, so I found a kid at the event with a light > grey shirt > and took a picture. The camera asked if the image was okay > and I hit > okay and that was that. > > The photos from the event are here: > http://www.nickdavidwright.com/page40.html > > The lady with the parakeet was the first image shot after > setting the > custom WB, everything before was shot on auto and > "fixed in post." > > I didn't have to tweak the colors of the images shot on > custom at all. > I love it. > > -- > ~Nick David Wright > http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ > > -- > 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.
