Great Dickens Christmas Fair (many pics)

gollywop wrote:

WB much better with these shots.

Regarding WB. These are mostly taken with AutoWB without any WB adjustments.
I shoot raw and I do brightness/contrast adjustments in LR as well as noise reduction. I had to do it because all indoor pics were purposedly undereposed at ISO 800 to allow lower flash intensity.

But white balance is something that I rarely had to change - Olympus is so good at AutoWB. I probably adjusted WB for 10% or so of the pictures. You may find AutoWB questionable sometimes but that's only because the light was so horrible and inconsistent. The available light mostly had yellowish and purplish cast. Flash added to the mix and its intensity varied because of TTL. I did try different WB for some pics and it was hard to do better than AutoWB did.
If I had to change WB for every photo it would increase PP time a lot.

I'm not exaggerating about horrible light - you can see what the light looked like here, at the official event site: http://www.dickensfair.com/galleries

On a side note about AutoWB. We had a holiday group lunch at our company this week. It was in a dark restaurant with yellow artificial lighting. Me and my colleague were shooting pics, without flash, both at ISO 3200. He was using Sony NEX-5R and I had E-PL5. While his camera was a bit better at ISO 3200 all his pictures showed yellow people's faces. My pictures gave just right people's skin colors given that light, without any adjustment.

AutoWB is something that I appreciate a lot in Olympus cameras since I got into m4/3 last year.