Well, I have to admit that you've located an exception. The interior of
a hockey rink is far from the lovely light you'd like to capture. :-)
I did get caught today without a white balance card and in a furniture
store with my wife where the lighting was mixed daylight, fluorescent,
tungsten and probably others. I did use a piece of white paper in a
couple shots to try to develop some semblance of the color of the
fabrics there. Probably a hopeless task given the mixed light but
better than the camera will do on its own.
Chuck Norcutt
Richard Lovison wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> I think the digital obsession with white balance is simply way overboard
>> and more directed at selling white balance products than taking photos
>> that represent the light they were taken in.
>
> I haven't been witness to the obsession, more the confusion as to what
> it is. I find the custom white balance in the E-3 a very useful tool,
> especially indoors. When doing an indoor shot of a hockey rink, I had no
> clue as to the source of the overhead lighting and didn't want the ice
> to have a weird color cast. Shooting a gray card in the stands gave me
> an excellent starting point to work from in RAW conversion. I probably
> would have had more difficulty getting the proper tint setting had I
> shot at the daylight setting or used auto. Setting the color balance of
> something white in the image to pure white in the conversion doesn't
> always work for me.
>
>> In most cases, accurate white balance just washes away the color of
>> the lovely light you're trying to capture.
>
> I agree and is the reason I recommend to most who ask to keep there WB
> setting at daylight instead of auto as it works in most cases (as it did
> in the film days) and choose shade or overcast when appropriate,
> especially with snow scenes.
>
> Richard
>
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