On 1/31/06, Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
I'm curious about what '+3' stands for. Is it telling me to set exposure compensation for 3? (Seems a bit high) The advice to set white balance to cloudy is one that several people have recommended within my earshot. I tried it once but it was not a scientific test at all, and when it came time to review my photos, I don't remember there being much of a difference. I do think it's a good idea to play around with ALL your white balance settings. For what it's worth I've also heard a suggestion to set your white balance to fluorescent when shooting sunsets -- gives everything a nice reddish tint, so it makes your sunsets redder. Also something that worked for me was keeping a few funky colours stored in your custom white balance settings to play with. At one point, I had red, blue, and green stored in mine. (I was trying to do a digital version of a harris shutter kind of thing.) I tried out some random shots with them too, and ended up with one that pleased my eyes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skye/16598105/ -- skye
