Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you are going to do this crutch why even try to do anything right when you make the photo? It is far easier and quicker for me to shoot it right than to dick around with it in post. I guess I am old fashioned but I think being sloppy in any aspect of photography is not the best way to work. Shoot it right and it leads to a better file when you do convert and also makes your time a lot quicker. I feel the same way about exposure, where even in RAW you can be pretty far off and still recover. Never had that luxury in film with chrome and hate to get sloppy now in my old age. LOL How much time to do a custom WB? About 15 seconds. When I shoot events where I create thousands of images I can edit very quickly, convert those RAWS to whatever I need for delivery and upload to my clients and call it a day. Eric wrote: > Harrison: > > >> A few months ago I did some testing with my Expo disk (the name of the >> gadget you stick on the front of your lens to white balance). >> > > Why not simply shoot raw and then just set the white balance after the > fact? > I'm unsure of how much of a time savings it would be to fiddle around with > the expo disk and setting custom white balance settings each time. And if > the color temperature is constant, then setting all the raw files to that > same color temp can be done almost instantaneously. -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://www.mcclary.net/blog