White Balance HELL!!!

My son went to his 1st swimming lessons today

Let's see, the swimming instructor told me to only be at this certain section due to liabilities...so....

Behind me - diffused window lighting
To my right - a full blast of noonish sunshine through the window
To my front - diffused lighting further diffused by a light window tint
On top - a whole 4 rows of florescent lighting, some have seen better days
Below - well, not to mention the light bouncing back from the pool

All taken with the E-30 and 50-200 SWD, did my best as to what looks good to my eye.











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They look terrific to me:

Vjim

I shot for five months with the E30 and inside WB was always hopeless, so I'd shot RAW....except for No 2 you have avoided the dreaded E30 magenta hue and even then its not bad in No 2....good show you are wayyyy to fussy !
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IMO, you did very, very well under the circumstances. Great captures and he is very cute.
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Gidday mate

Lovely shots of your little one. Very special

I agree about the WB problem. Did you shoot RAW?

I have fiddled with your (first) JPEG in ACR and have managed to get a much more natural look to it, I think (Got rid of the cyan/greenish cast).

I can upload it to my web site and post it here, if you like. However, I would not do this without your permission.

Alternately, I could email you my efforts, after all, it is a tiny file.

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Great results nevertheless! Well done.

Thank you for the complements guys, and yes John King, please do
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Gidday mate

Here is my modified version. I opened it in ACR and adjusted the WB and tint; exposure; brightness; recovery (IIRC). Then opened it in PS4 and applied an USM of 30%, 2.0 pixels.



Your original for comparison:



There is still the blue/green cast from the water, but I think the skin tone on your son's face is better and more natural.

Just a rough adjustment with a very small JPEG. Hope you like it.

You should be able to achieve a far better result from a bigger JPEG (more data to work with), or preferably a RAW file. You should (IMO) always shoot RAW + JPEG, specially in this sort of weird lighting environment. After all, you can never photograph your son's first swimming lesson (or whatever) again, can you?

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Perhaps being kind to cats, dogs & children does ...

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Get a Expo-Disk-will give you a perfect white balance every time!

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Get an Expo-Disk--will give you perfect white balance every time!

SuperVF1 said:

My son went to his 1st swimming lessons today

Let's see, the swimming instructor told me to only be at this certain section due to liabilities...so....

Behind me - diffused window lighting
To my right - a full blast of noonish sunshine through the window
To my front - diffused lighting further diffused by a light window tint
On top - a whole 4 rows of florescent lighting, some have seen better days
Below - well, not to mention the light bouncing back from the pool

All taken with the E-30 and 50-200 SWD, did my best as to what looks good to my eye.











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http://www.flickr.com/photos/supervf1/

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E-3- , 14/35,,-35/100-,9/18-,40/150,-12/60-,50/200-, 35 Macro-70/300-,1.4-&25 tube-, Raynox 1.50-, fl-50, fl-36, Viv. 385 ,