"tony cooper" <tony_cooper
...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:38:58 GMT, "Charles E Hardwidge"
> <bo
...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>I've been having a play with the G9 and seeing how the image comes out
>>with different white balance settings and convertors. It's doing my head
>>in.
>>Adobe standard profile is nice but the Canon profiles don't match what
>>Canon produces.
>>White balance is okay under tungsten but custom white balance with a white
>>card looks colder than seen by the eyeball.
>>So, what do people use and how do they process it to get pleasing results?
> Funny you should mention that. I spent a couple of hours today
> working in Lightroom on WB. I took a series of shots setting the
> camera incorrectly for the light, and then correcting it in Lightroom.
> Finding a neutral point in an image is difficult. I ended up with
> better results just playing around with sliders until the image looks
> like I want it to look.
I'm juggling the differences between Lightroom and the native app. Adobe
standard profile is okay, but the Adobe Canon profiles are a bit off Canon's
native software and give a slight green cast under halogen light.
I'm finding it hard to figure white balance as seen under tungsten versus
what's created from a target. Maybe I'm a bozo but I prefer the "as seen"
versus what a "correct" image gives me (like in the example link).
Like yourself I've found getting white balance right is tough even with a
proper target but setting a custom in-camera white balance or dialing in the
hard numbers in post (or on camera where supported) is fine.
I get the idea of different film and light meters. The problem I've got is
feeling comfortable about different raw processing tools, and setting colour
temperature for "as seen" versus compensating for ambient light.
Noise is orthogonal to this topic but one comment I read summed up my view
that working within limits of the camera and its noise profile relative to
the scene and light conditions makes noise a relative non-issue.
Links:
http://www.photographybay.com/2008/08/12/colorright-review-custom-whi...
http://factoidz.com/guide-to-portrait-photography-step-three-understa...
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/805099
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2341150
http://thomaslesterphotography.com/photography/untwisted-adobe-camera...
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Charles E Hardwidge
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