On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: > > FWIW, I must say that I rarely use a grey card and find that the AWB > is pretty good in camera. If I have to wing it, I'll try looking for > neutral spots with the WB tool. Usually that gets me close enough to > where I can manually adjust it to decent skin tones at least.
I only use a grey card when I know that the colours are important to me, and skin tones are particularly difficult for me to "wing". So I grey card any kind of portraiture and all studio work. Sometimes flowers. Otherwise I just set the camera WB manually to Daylight and adjust WB in Lightroom later. I always try to note what the light sources are in a room or the conditions outside (overcast, shade, etc.). I've gotten pretty good at finding a neutral colour in the image. In tricky situations I use adjustment layers in Photoshop to filter strong colour casts. The Channel Mixer is good for this; also individual RGB channels in Curves. Especially for cases like music events under coloured incandescent floods. -- -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.
