Like others of you who have reported on their default WB settings when
shooting RAW I also shoot with daylight WB. It's no different than
shooting with daylight film except that digital makes it trivial to
adjust for a different color balance... which is usually not required.
But I do have different ideas about the sidewalk cafe shot and not with
respect to white balance. Two things hit me between the eyes when I
first looked at the image. I think the DOF is too shallow. The guys in
the background should be soft but not so soft as to strain my eyes.
I've estimated that this shot was taken at about 20-25 feet. With a
90mm at f/4 there's not much depth there. For a street photo where one
has to move fairly quickly I would likely have used f/5.6 or even f/8.
Yes, I know, I'm not the Leica shooter trying to shoot everything wide
open. Anyhow, if the shot is important enough, it's not hard to adjust
the depth of field from sharper to blurrier. But going the other way is
tough.
My second point is something that was drilled into me years ago. The
woman's shoe is not entirely within the frame. I would likely have
discarded this frame (as I have many others) based solely on that point.
My personal rule is that, if the foot (hand, etc) is in the frame, it
must be complete. If not, an alternate crop at ankle or calf or knee
level might be better. This one is close enough to being complete that
I would even consider extending the frame and painting in the rest of
the shoe and sidewalk. A bit extreme perhaps but that's the way I was
taught about taking pictures of people. Sometimes tough on me since I
continue to make that same framing "mistake" over and over.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/23/2014 1:36 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
Don't know why that one went before I finished!
This one should make up for that last one:
http://www.pbase.com/image/156248682
And most Vietnamese women do look more like this one!
Tina
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
PESO:
This one should make up for that last one:
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