On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:47 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Aahz Maruch > >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013, Bruce Walker wrote: >>> >>> >>> - I always shoot a grey card to get a WB reference. If you don't have >>> one, find something neutral in the area and shoot that. Shoot RAW so >>> you can fine-adjust the WB later on. >> >> >> This is something I saw today, anyone tried it? >> >> http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/white-balance-lens-cap/ > > > I've got the ExpoDisc version and rarely use it. > > I mainly just leave the camera's white balance on Sunny & stick a grey card > and/or an old Macbeth Color Checker into the frame occasionally, since I'm > going to adjust white balance in Camera Raw anyway. I am shooting RAW. > > I'm working on the theory that white balance is always wrong, but if you > settle on one it's always wrong by the same amount & in the same direction > (for any specific light source/session) which makes fixing it in Camera Raw > easier.
+1 to that, John. But you _do_ have to stay alert to when the light changes materially, like moving from the pool table to the bar area, and reshoot the grey card. I gotta get me a colour checker too. -- -bmw -- 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.
