I'm with Paul: there's no right or wrong answer; it's a personal preference choice.
If you like warm interior tones, or want to convey such, go with a higher colour temp. If you prefer to neutralize the light for more accurate colour values, stick with tungsten WB. As for "leaving the photo as it is", the camera is no authority. Auto White Balance is often fooled by the scene, or you might have set manual white balance, so what you got out of the the camera is pretty arbitrary. But this example scene is even trickier because there are two distinct colour temperatures: what the table lamp produced (likely tungsten WB, 2800K-3200K) and what's coming in through the window, which looks to me like a cloudy dusk, so it could be anywhere from 4000K to 6000K. Lightroom allows you to create a WB gradient so you could make the colour balance reasonably neutral across the scene by making a gradient between the lamp and the window. But then that would make it look like daylight outside and remove the cue that it's late in the day. You can also easily solve the whole problem by converting the image to black and white. :) On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@mac.com> wrote: > I go both ways on this. Sometimes I standardize the color by setting white > point on a white, gray or near black surface. Sometimes I just bump it a bit > toward the cool, and I may elect to leave it warm. It's all about the > photographer's interpretation of the scene. There are no right or wrong > answers. > > Paul via phone > >> On Jun 27, 2017, at 2:55 PM, Bipin Gupta <bip...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Many homes still use yellowish light for internal illumination instead >> of the less power hungry LED bulbs. >> And photos come out with a strong color cast especially skin tones. >> >> I have given the link to a sample photo which shows the yellow color >> cast - though surprisingly the skin tone is fairly OK:- >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/svjhqjveewcwt0d/Yellow%20Light%20Example.jpg?dl=0 >> >> The Question: Should we neutralize the overall yellow color cast and >> correct the skin tone in post, or leave the photo as it is?? >> >> I often end up with "sick" looking skin tones when I adjust the WB >> Temperature in Lightroom. >> >> Looking forward to your feedback on your preferences. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
