Mr. Bill and others,
Yes I am dissatisfied with the auto white balance. It cannot deal with
mixed lighting issues... that is the real problem. As others here have
stated, it is a very difficult problem to compensate for, I'm thinking
my best bet is to continue with what I am doing... shooting a grey card
to make the photo the best I can in post production. Fluorescent
lighting with flash is the biggest problem... when I encounter this I
always inform the couple that this is one of a photographer's worse
nightmares as concerns correct color... many times if the "green hair"
cast is really bad I will just do the best black and white conversion
with channel mixer I can do.
On a related note, I use a Gary Fong lightsphere, have for years and
love the results. I know some people hate it and others swear by it, I
just know it works for me better than anything else I have used. But to
the point, there is an "amber dome" made for it to balance the flash
output with tungsten lighting. It does a pretty nice job if you set
your camera white balance to tungsten. I wrote Mr. Fong about creating
a dome to correct for fluorescent lighting and the reply I received was
that they have thought of it and tried it, but basically gave up due to
the color output of fluorescent lighting being all over the map. It
just did not work.
So bottom line, photography is NOT a perfect science, and all we can do
is deal with issues as best we can, especially in a wedding situation,
where time to "play" with color meters and compensating filters is just
not practical.
Thanks for all the input on this issue... very interesting to get
other's take on it.
Steve
On Nov 16, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Bill Gillooly wrote:
While your plan is a good one, I think that it leaves something out.
Conventional color temp correcting filters fall on the yellow-blue
color axis. If you had fluorescents mixed in, then you'd need
correction from the green-magenta axis. I'm not sure that a color
temp meter can handle this issue, though a high-end 3 sensor color
meter could.
Have you been dissatisfied with the auto-white-balance feature?
Mr. Bill
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