Golden trees, Cole Haan, Midtown Fifth Avenue

Theme: Holiday Sights. Notes by Mark Lentz.

We have for a long time eschewed the Automatic White Balance feature of our cameras in favor of setting it manually -- well, semi-manually: there are presets for Sunny, Cloudy, Tungsten, Florescent. This is because when the AWB messes up, it really messes up, and the presets generally work well, and very easy to set. And once we got in the habit of doing this, we got in the habit of checking other important settings at the same time, like ISO, and generally made us just a little more "thoughtful" about our photos.

However, none of the settings worked quite right for this store window -- either it became too silvery blue, as in #1 and 3, or red-yellow, as in 2 and 4. (Each of these has already had the color balance adjusted somewhat in PhotoShop).

Another issue, seen in 3 and 4, is that if the color balance is set for the store window, the street outside will not look quite right.

It may be time to buy one of those white or gray cards and learn to set the white balance ourselves -- a lot of things are not as hard as you think they're going to be, before you do them. Then we could save the settings as a Custom White Balance. Yep. That would be good. Sounds like a New Year's resolution there.

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12/14/2003

		Golden trees, Cole Haan, Midtown Fifth Avenue Theme: Holiday Sights. Notes by Mark Lentz. We have for a long time eschewed the Automatic White Balance feature of our cameras in favor of setting it manually -- well, semi-manually: there are presets for Sunny, Cloudy, Tungsten, Florescent. This is because when the AWB messes up, it really messes up, and the presets generally work well, and very easy to set. And once we got in the habit of doing this, we got in the habit of checking other important settings at the same time, like ISO, and generally made us just a little more "thoughtful" about our photos. However, none of the settings worked quite right for this store window -- either it became too silvery blue, as in #1 and 3, or red-yellow, as in 2 and 4. (Each of these has already had the color balance adjusted somewhat in PhotoShop). Another issue, seen in 3 and 4, is that if the color balance is set for the store window, the street outside will not look quite right. It may be time to buy one of those white or gray cards and learn to set the white balance ourselves -- a lot of things are not as hard as you think they're going to be, before you do them. Then we could save the settings as a Custom White Balance. Yep. That would be good. Sounds like a New Year's resolution there. All content ©2003 on behalf of its creators. if you would like to be notified occasionally about noteworthy new content on NYCJPG. This page requires a 6.0+ browser for the pictures/text to display correctly. If you have an older version of Netscape, Explorer, or AOL, the text will appear cut off and the pictures distorted. Site Tips: If you have Explorer or AOL (recent version), and a mouse with a scroll wheel, you should be able to move the mouse anywhere over the text at right and scroll it with the wheel, so you can still see the picture while reading. Most of the pages have a large version of the main picture which you can make your wallpaper by first clicking on it to download, then right-clicking and choosing "Set as Background".