kit laughlin
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Thanks jlever; so often I look for the more complicated methods. Perfect.
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Outstanding!The G1 and 20/1/7 is an absolutely marvellous combination, and the files are lovely. Here's a snapshot taken this morning, in my lady's boudoir.
ƒ2 seems like a lovely spot for this lens, too. Reminds me of yesteryear...
Original (but resized for here) and actual pixels:
(testing the 'upload via URL option)
Kit, this is wonderful... thanks for sharing. :salute:test
You can't white balance on white. White contains no color information, so there's no way to determine what needs to be adjusted.Used the *white balance* eyedropper on OOF foreground assuming it to be white...
You can't white balance on white. White contains no color information, so there's no way to determine what needs to be adjusted.
You must white balance on a neutral gray, like a gray card or a cat. :angel:
- Leigh
The term White Balance was coined long before digital imaging was invented.Um, the dialogue in Capture One is called WHITE BALANCE
This is news?The term White Balance was coined long before digital imaging was invented.
I started photographing in the 1960s, and have made a living from it for over thirty years, working in both analogue and digital. Eek to you too.Photography did exist before electronic imaging, in case you hadn't heard.
- Leigh
Then why haven't you learned anything? :thumbdown:I started photographing in the 1960s, and have made a living from it for over thirty years, working in both analogue and digital. Eek to you too.
Well said, Kit. Let’s keep this thread on track! Thanks, mate.Leigh, with respect, you are in error. Any white, or grey, object can be used to assess white balance, providing no channels are blown. The terms "white" or "grey" mean, literally, absence of colour. "Absence of colour" means that no channel is dominant; that is, for any given luminance, all channels will show the same numerical values. Mediumcool used an object expected to be white (a sheet) with a luminance value of ~150, so perfectly suited to this purpose.
Put simply, any white/grey object in a scene can be used this way; the processing program simply ascribes equal values to the RGB channels for the selected object, independent of brightness. This ascription assumes that the white or grey object reflects equal amounts of all three channels, and hence is deemed to be neutral. The result is that any colour cast (in the example in question, light reflected from the walls) is eliminated thereby, giving accurate colours—or, at least, a place to start. HTH, kl
That's correct. But the point about none of the channels being saturated is critical.Any white, or grey, object can be used to assess white balance, providing no channels are blown.
Love it! For some reason, the painted meters are especially cute!GF-1 + 20mm