Great gallery, Christine! I especially like the daddy longlegs (#4) and the mossy rock face (#5).
I see what you mean about a yellow cast. Are you shooting RAW? It actually makes WB correction simple. When the light is weird I take a snap of a small grey card I keep in my camera bag, or the "18% Grey" cap I often wear (bought at the George Eastman House). In Lightroom, I use the eyedropper WB tool on the card or cap shot, and use the resulting settings for the series. Cheers, Rick On Sep 1, 2014, at 4:44 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > Did a 5 mile hike at Starved Rock State Park yesterday. Starved Rock is > about two hours from Chicago, a very easy drive. Place was packed given the > Labor Day holiday, but we got there early, got our walk in, then left around > 2:30 for lunch and a walk around Utica, Illinois, a quaint little town of a > thousand with a three block Main Street area. > > I have a few questions: > > 1) My white balance setting, Shade, seems to capture a lot of yellow forcing > me to dial yellow down during post-processing. I wondered if other K-3 > shooters found this to their experience as well and what any compensation > techniques have been employed. > > 2). I may be getting Charles Robinson's Fastpack 250. On my hike I took the > Low > Pro MicroTrekker, which is a great fit on the back, but I find it a tough bag > to work out of, and it doesn't allow for a water bottle or much personal > items. It does have two bottom tripod straps, but I want a vertical carry > for the tripod on my next hiking camera bag. I hope to be doing more hiking > in future, so I find myself now in the market for a hiking camera bag. If > anyone has a nice hiking camera bag which can accommodate gear and personal > items, is not a sloppy fit, and has a vertical carry for a tripod, I'd > welcome the suggestions. > > 3). I didn't have my tripod with me on this trek because I'm actually an > inexperienced hiker and didn't know what to expect of the trails or my > ability, so I left the tripod at home. I will be taking it the next trip. > All the shots in the gallery were handheld. > > Here's my gallery from yesterday's hike. It was a wonderfully fun day, and > the park is really great. There are a lot more trails to explore, so I'm most > definitively going back. I've made some short and long term hiking goals. > > http://www.caguila.com/rockaug312014/index.html > > Comments welcome. Cheers, Christine, and Happy Labor Day! > > Sent from my iPad > -- > 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. http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- 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.
