Yeah I did shoot RAW. To be honest I don't think I've ever messed with the white balance of any shot I've taken before, I always leave it on "As Shot" in ACR and my camera is set to 5600k. I'll try fiddling with it and see what I can do
I agree on the comment about exposure, but I think the white balance is Ok for the subject matter. It would look unnatural if a campfire produced a neutral light. Could probably go a little cooler if you wanted to, but that's really to taste. Looks fine to me.... having spent a lot of time around campfires.
Mast3rshake wrote:
Yeah I did shoot RAW. To be honest I don't think I've ever messed with the white balance of any shot I've taken before, I always leave it on "As Shot" in ACR and my camera is set to 5600k. I'll try fiddling with it and see what I can do
really you leave your white balance at 5600? Wow. Why not try auto whitebalance and adjust in acr, if needed.
To be honest, if it wasn't for the option of changing whitebalance from a RAW photo I would probably shoot jpeg most of the time.
would be nice to see the new version with the exposure and wb tweeked a bit.
Thanks for the feedback thus far. I don't know why I didn't notice that those reds were killing the shot. I converted it to black and white and played with it then converted back and I could feel my eyes melting when I saw the reds and yellows. I tried to tone the fire down a little bit and ease off the reds, but it doesn't look like I can get much more detail from the face, too much of the whites are blown out.
