On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:16 PM, George Sinos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Everyone will enjoy the hobby in their own way. If you're into
> Landscape photography I'll suggest that, until you figure out the
> details of UniWB, you'll probably find it simpler and more useful
> bracket your exposures. Even after you figure out the settings for
> UniWB you'll probably do that anyway.
>
> Frankly, even if I thought my metering was perfect I would still
> bracket the exposures. The technically perfect exposure is often not
> the artistically most desirable result, and I like having options.
Indeed bracketing would be one solution, and I basically do
"manual" bracketing (i.e. I take a photo, look at the histogram, and
try to compensate for exposure) thus I end up with more than three.
However I'll have to try with exposure bracketing.
Just out of curiosity: how much do you bracket? 1/2 stops, 1 stop?
> I'm not trying to discourage you from pursuing your technical goals.
> If that's what you enjoy, by all means do it. I'm just saying that
> photography is a much less precise pursuit than you might think if you
> read a lot of discussions on the Internet.
It is perfectly clear to me that photography is an experimental
and empirical endeavor, and not a controlled laboratory experiment. :)
> Thom Hogan writes quite a bit about UniWB in his guides for the
> various Nikon camera models. To paraphrase Hogan, UniWB makes little
> or no difference unless you are shooting in high contrast oddly lit
> situations. If you set the camera white balance close to how you will
> eventually render the photo, the R, G and B channel histograms will be
> close enough.
>
> [...]
>
> He recommends that UniWB be saved as one of the custom WB's and used
> when you think you might need it.
And this is exactly what I've done:
* I've saved a custom WB (this should be UniWB when I get it) in
custom WB 3;
* then my K-30 has two custom "user-modes" where one I've called
"RAW" (manual mode, fixed ISO, RAW, WB set to custom WB 3, etc.) and
the other "Auto" (aperture mode, range ISO, RAW+, auto WB, etc.);
Ciprian.
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