footnoteblog Posted March 7, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted March 7, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) If you're having unwanted white balance "choices" by your M8, one suggestion is to shoot only in one mode, and shoot a WhiBal card during your session. Use that to pick up the correct white balance and apply that to the rest of your images. Â I'm drafting a full equipment and workflow to start a good methodology for general digital photography. At least, you have a decent, consistent baseline from which to tweak things to your liking. Â I'm not big on unpredictability when capturing; throwing buckets of paint on the side of a house is not how I like to paint houses. After that, I say, tweak away! Stencils! Fillagrees! Trompe l'oeil! Whatever floats your boat. But nothing beats a nice, clean coat of gesso to start... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 7, 2007 Posted March 7, 2007 Hi footnoteblog, Take a look here White Balance suggestion. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
wparsonsgisnet Posted March 7, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted March 7, 2007 I am following Guy's and others' suggestions to shoot raw always, and to use a WhiBal card. Â I AM carrying the WhiBal card at all times. Of course, in my last shoot I forgot to photo the stupid thing! Â Clearly, I am too old a dog.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
footnoteblog Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share #3 Â Posted March 7, 2007 Yes, RAW, definitely. Shooting a JPG is like using Polaroids! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsteve Posted March 7, 2007 Share #4 Â Posted March 7, 2007 You can also shoot the whitebal card to set the manual WB to get a close starting point. It is tough to line it up to fill the central spot with the rangefinder because of the parralax at close distances. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
footnoteblog Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share #5 Â Posted March 7, 2007 Yeah, manual white balance is easier with a bigger WhiBal card; but that's like bringing strobe heads to a street shoot. Â I like the idea of the ExpoDisc, but it's not as accurate, I believe, depending on reflective surfaces that can "creep" into the light color. Â That's why, if you at least set the white balance to a constant temperature, then you have more predictability. Whereas auto-WB will never give you a good starting point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted March 7, 2007 Share #6 Â Posted March 7, 2007 Yes yes yes, DNG and grey-white-black card Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.