I shoot RAW almost exclusively, and I rarely consider white balance, other than to make sure there's a gray surface in frame. Using the RAW converter eyedropper to set white balance on a neutral gray object is the foolproof way to shoot digital.
When I did have to shoot jpegs for a VR panorama service, I set white balance prior to each shot with a gray card. Paul On Mar 30, 2010, at 7:12 PM, John Coyle wrote: > I'm no expert on White Balance technology, but looking at Joseph > McAllister's dog pictures and David Parsons reporting shifts when using > flash, could it be that, when using AWB, the amount of white or very light > subject matter is making the changes happen? In the three pictures of the > dogs, the nearer lighter coat dog is turning more and more towards the light > source, and my guess would be that this is causing the AWB algorithm to try > to correct for the change: unnecessarily in this case. > > If this is indeed the reason, then it seems that not using AWB would be the > solution, although I have not experienced anything like the problems > reported here with my ist-D, which is on AWB pretty much all the time. > > > John in Brisbane > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > David Parsons > Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 5:08 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: K20D shooting Magenta images with flash > > What is your light source? > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> > wrote: >> With the K20, and since I got one recently, a K-7, a single or a series of >> shots within a string of shots, outdoors, same light, no flash, seconds >> apart in time, I'll get magenta (large White Balance shift) images. Raw, >> auto everything. It's a pain in the butt. >> >> I'm working on finding a cure. >> >> >> On Mar 29, 2010, at 06:21 , [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Is it in the flesh tones, but did not happen in all the photos. I will > put >>> up a photo or two. >>> This happened with both the Pentax AF540 and the white lightning. The 540 >>> was a direct flash shot. White lightning was bounced into a 60" reflector >>> with a silver face. Joe >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "William Robb" <[email protected]> >>> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 12:29:40 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >>> Subject: Re: K20D shooting Magenta images with flash >>> >>> >>> >>>>> On 3/28/2010 9:24 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Has anyone had any trouble with their digital bodies images over >>>>>> magenta. Today I shot a large family with White lightnings and also >>>>>> different shots with a Pentax AF540. The camera was set on >>>>>> manual..Never >>>>>> had this happen before.. >>>>>> Thoughts anybody..Thanks >>> >>> Pictures or it isn't a problem. >>> >>> William Robb >> >> Joseph McAllister >> [email protected] >> >> "Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus..." >> http://tinyurl.com/ndmfhb >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Aloha Photographer Photoblog > http://alohaphotog.blogspot.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. -- 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.
