On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll try this. I was complaining earlier about this very fact. Of > course, i'm not terribly proficient with LR yet.
I also adjust my exposure a stop or so, that helps Dave > > 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. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.

