These were shot in RAW. Shooting in RAW does not negate the benefits of setting a custom white balance.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > -- ~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.
