M8 + CV15: best post processing solutions to fix for shooting in mixed lighting

[Guest stnami]

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very true robert. as you say neutralising an image completely almost always strips away the atmospheric qualities which is what 'makes' the image sing in the first place

......... and that's not fun

[Guest guy_mancuso]

Tend to think of WB like a Video crew would do when they setup shots. What they basically do is shoot a white card and set the camera to that reading. It's basically the same thing.

[robertwright]

I think sometimes what I miss in digital are the distortions and compressions of film-having spent a long time printing inkjet and staring at a color correct monitor, it is always fun to look at good old C-prints, and marvel at the cyan shadows, yellow hightlights, weird crossovers and also how they turn marvelous colors as they age....

 

Sometimes you open an image in the raw editor and the density/wb is off, but for some reason, it just works that way. the accidents are part of the fun, and I was really getting bored with the "standard" color of the 5D, it is very "correct" imo, and pretty soulless. That's why color neg was always so great, it was just so off sometimes but you didn't always notice that part, it just communicated a kind of reality that we accept.

 

It all comes back to the eyes, and one thing the M8 has done for me is make me want to print tons of what I shoot, and that experience has been very valuable, the pixel peeping is not important, the point is the Print I think, if that is your medium, and I believe we all need to spend more time looking at our prints and less time looking at the monitor. Remember from the chemical days, you saw nothing that you did not print. It closes the loop in the brain, tells you what you actually "did."

 

So wb is really only a stop over on the way to the print.