On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Rob Studdert wrote:
On 1 Feb 2006 at 6:58, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
If you're going to be shooting anything where you may be trying to
edit the color balance, you should really consider shooting RAW. There is
no such thing as setting white balance at the time of the shot if you're
shooting raw... it's all done later without loss of information.
Not quite. The better RAW converters will respect the in camera WB setting if
desired also the embedded JPG file is created based on the camera RAW setting.
I always try to set the WB when shooting RAW then I also have a reference as
the the prevailing lighting.
My advice would be to shoot RAW set the WB as per the lighting conditions and
tweak colours to warm the image during the RAW conversion.
True enough. Although now that I know more about color
management, I'm a bit more skeptical of phrases like "color temperature"
and "RGB primaries." My experience has been that the WB setting on the
camera doesn't necessarily match what the RAW converter thinks it is. I
usually leave it on Daylight (D65) and forget about it. If a photo
requires something else, then I change it in the RAW converter.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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