On Jul 24, 2010, at 4:09 AM, frank theriault wrote: > Ignore the banal title - I couldn't think of anything good, so this is > just a working title for now. Last weekend I went to a wedding, and > the last shots I took were with available light so I had the WB set to > incandescent. Of course I forgot to put it back to AWB afterwards. > So last night Judy and I took a walk along the lake and I had the > 18-55mm on the body (so no long shots) when I saw this kayaker > skimming along a quiet bay. I took a few shots, chimped and saw that > everything was deep blue (almost indigo) on the screen. Looked cool, > but ~very~ unnatural. By the time I reset the WB (s)he was gone, so I > converted to monochrome and went for the silhouette look (which it > pretty much was anyway). I kind of like it: > > http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/07/kayak-and-duck.html
I love it. The only reason that mis-setting the white balance would be a problem is if you shoot jpegs. There are some minor advantages if you're chimping the exposure to have it "right". > > Hope you do, too. > > It's been a busy week and I haven't had a chance to do any processing. > Gonna do the last few beaver photos now and post those this morning. Oh, right, you're in Canada. > Be back in a minute. > > Comments always welcome. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
