I think white balancing has been greatly oversold... probably by the
purveyors of WB tools. It's easy to make a pure white balance with
digital but that doesn't mean we should. Afterall, when we were
shooting film, we probably shot 99% of our stuff with daylight film. It
would be horrid to white balance a sunset or sunrise. And for the other
stuff 99% of the 1% was shot with type B film for incandescent and the
other 0.01% was shot by product advertising shooters who balanced their
light using 100 different Kodak CC filters. Yuk.
Yes, the bride's white dress needs to be white... but not 100% so on the
beach at sunrise. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/12/2014 3:56 PM, Moose wrote:
>> In this particular case I don't think I would truly white balance (I almost
>> >never do). Assuming that the red is being cast by the monitor I think
>> >I'd white balance one image and then blend with the original to get
>> >something pleasing but much less red.
> Exactamento! It seems most people just don't get the beauty and power of
> layers. It's apparently easy to assume they
> make things harder, while the opposite is true.
>
> New layer, WB to reference, opacity slider to mix to taste. Quick, easy, nice
> results.
>
> Layered Moose
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