I've recently taken a lot of photos in cloudy conditions,
particularly in early morning light, and had a fair amount of
trouble getting a realistic colour balance. That may be more to
do with the morning light than the cloudy conditions but I tend
to think that it is a bit of both.
I didn't have much luck altering the camera settings to, easily
anyway, get a realistic colour balance. Now I shoot RAW and
adjust the balance later.
Note that I am aiming to get the image to resemble what I see (or
saw) fairly closely. Peterson may not be dong that.
BUT I don't profess to be expert on colour balance issues!
Keith McG
Charles Wilson wrote:
Dear All,
I have just been reading Bryan Peterson's recent book Understanding
Digital Photography. It is an excellent read and I would highly
recommend it. In one part of his book he recommends setting the white
balance on the camera to cloudy +3 . His reasoning for this is it gives
his pictures a lot more warmth and its like shooting Kodak E100Vs in the
fact it gives a lot of saturation.
His chapter certainly got me thinking and i thought I might give it a go
with my ist D. But I would be interested on other members of the group
opinion on this and to know if anyone has tried it.
Regards
Charles Wilson
Sydney Australia
