Saturday, August 29, 2009

White Balance

These two photos, I set the white balance differently and the resuylt is quite different also.

With raw format, I can always tweak it if I change my mind. But I don't bother. This photo, I set it to "Auto" white balance.
This one, the white balance is set to "cloudy". So which one do you prefer?

8 comments:

Sabaorchard said...

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Kong said...

IMO, the question should me, which of these 2 photos better reflects the REAL thing?

william said...

Kong: Real thing is never too nice. Often it is too pale. By the way, neither one represent the real thing. The top one is too pale and the bottom one is too red. The real thing is slightly less red.

Kong said...

Sometime I wondered. Do we take photos to make the thing looks nice or use it as a faithful recorder of thing.

William said...

Kong: Both. Apparently we are never happy with the real thing. I can always remember the story of that old lady during the good old days. She insisted that she had less lines on her face. So I learnt from there and it is still true today.

wenn said...

hi, nice pictures..

Gabriel said...

i prefer the second one, more "dawnish" feelings.haha...

MCM said...

1st one....look nature with blue purple