From: Walt Gilbert
On 8/15/2011 7:23 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
I forgot a couple of advicelets:
Permanently set your WB to Cloudy. Weird advice huh? But here's the
thing: you are already shooting RAW (you are, I hope) and you can
always adjust the WB to whatever you want later. Cloudy is like "warm
daylight/flash" so it gives skin tones a healthy glow.
That's what I eventually settled on after getting some very, very cool
(and not in the colloquial sense) results from AWB. And I agree -- it
worked much better. I was able to salvage just about every shot I took,
and the skin tones were extremely natural-looking, if oversaturated --
which was my fault for not bumping it back down after ticking it up for
some flowers and such.
Select any white balance other than auto. Even if it's wrong, all of
your shots will be wrong in exactly the same way, so you can batch
process a correction.
Auto white balance is all over the map. You don't know what you're going
to get ... other than every one of them will be wrong in a different way
than all the rest.
I wasn't shooting RAW on those shots, since I needed to turn them around
pretty quickly, but I have gotten into the habit of doing that these
days, after spending a year shooting strictly in JPEG under the false
impression that the K-x's compression engine was /just/ that good.
Shoot RAW+JPEG in camera. An 8GB SDHC card gives me 200 RAW+ frames with
the K20D.
Ninety percent (or more) of the JPEGs are good enough right out of the
camera, but I've got the RAW files if I want to do any heavy post
processing.
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