They look good to moi.:-)

Like the snake shot.

Dave

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:56 PM, 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.
>
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> http://www.nickdavidwright.com/
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