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KaaX wrote:
douglasf13 wrote:
Also, I think autoWB is a big culprit for digital shooters who want more consistent tonality. I learned from Jono Slack on another forum that keeping my camera set to a single WB allows me to visualize things a little easier and more consistently. When I\'m outside, I always have my camera set to \"cloudy\" outdoors and \"tungsten\" indoors, no matter what the conditions, and that gives me a good foundation. I can always adjust the raw from there, if need be. I do still occasionally use autoWB in mixed lighting, but I try to keep my camera set at \"cloudy\" outdoors and \"tungsten\" indoors most of the time.
Hmm... interesting -- but why do you do this? Purely to make the image you see on the LCD on the back of the camera more \"standardized\"? I pretty much always adjust the WB by hand in post-production so I don\'t really care about the WB during shooting and have it set on Auto almost all the time. Sometimes it misses pretty badly, but I would expect AutoWB to be a better \"foundation\" than, say, \"cloudy\" -- all your sunlit images will start out too warm, for example... Is there something I\'m missing?
It\'s about developing a \"look\" to your shooting. Like with film, using a static WB most of the time gives me a look to start with, and I can always adjust after the fact. I think digital shooters can often be too concerned about correct WB vs. nice looking WB, and we end up with a bunch of homogenous shots that look the same despite being taken in very different lighting scenarios at different times of day. Plus, autoWB can often give pretty strange starting points in contrasty outdoor scenes.
So, I think of it as using a single film, but, rather than needing to use filters on the lens, I can correct the color after the fact if need be, but I often don\'t need to do much. Granted, despite being calibrated to a single color temp, film seems to have a better range in going from a cooler to warmer outdoor scene. That\'s why I tend to use closer to 6K, rather than 5K, with my camera, because it think it does bridge that gap a little better. I do occasionally \"change my film\" though and switch to a cooler starting point. I know that one can select every WB possible for every photo, until the \"right\" strikes his fancy, but it can be hard to target a direction without a consistent starting point.
Of course, if you\'re shooting products professionally, or something similar, then it\'s a very different thing, but I\'m talking about in terms of personal or fine art shooting.
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