I'll try this. I was complaining earlier about this very fact. Of course, i'm not terribly proficient with LR yet.
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Andrew Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. Many many cameras, including DSLR's, are fooled into making WB (and > exposure) errors when facing a frame full of snow. The typical errors > include underexposure and a very 'cool' WB. > > 2. Shoot in RAW for best results and use your digital preview with > great regularity to ensure quality exposure and a WB 'as close' to > 'correct' as possible; I find AWB with the K-5 (and before it, the > K-7) to have a fairly good success rate with snow - followed by > "Daylight". > > 3. In LR, your ability to process is infinitely increased by shooting > RAW ... the sheer amount of information stored in a 14-bit RAW file > out of the K-5 is amazing. This flexibility is especially evident > when manipulating WB in LR. > > 4. Take your 'ink dropper' tool from the WB section of LR - and point > it at the closest thing you can find to middle grey (A perfect middle > grey will read 50.0 - 50.0 - 50.0 in the RGB figures that change as > you roam around the image with your dropper). Find the closest you > can, click there (thereby telling LR - "This is what grey looks like > dummy!") - and inspect results ... blue snow should be gone for the > most part. If it isn't - continue tweaking by manually sliding your > Blue/Yellow WB slider to the yellow side. Tweak as you need to for > best results. > > 5. If you are still facing some annoying blue tinting after that, use > your color sliders to manually remove saturation from your Blue > channel until you are reasonably satisfied. > > Hope this helps someone as you get your snow shots this year. > -- > Andrew Allen > Freelance Photographer and Writer > www.andrewallenphoto.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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.

