On 5/6/2012 11:55 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, May 5, 2012, at 04:01 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>> Ever since Ken suggested it some years ago, I have set Sunny on my White
>> Balance on each of my cameras.
>>
>> I like the colour casts from different times of day, but if it's off
>> because of artificial lighting the Auto WB is unlikely to have done
>> anything useful and I'd have had to adjust the WB anyway.
> That is definitely an option. I usually only switch to sunny when I'm
> shooting a sunset, which is guaranteed to be wrong with any other WB
> setting. The rest of the time it is the camera's auto WB. As I shoot
> raw, I can easily change to something else in conversion. I like to see
> what the camera thinks is best. Sometimes it is so much better than I
> can do using my own wits.
I've done that in the past, but settled on leaving them on Daylight WB at all
times except when I occasionally remember
to set Incandescent WB inside. It's all correctable in Raw conversion, anyway.
And I do so, although not too often.
W. B. Moose
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