More about “shooting without messing around white balance”, and “fix in the post” and “Fujifilm film simulations”.
So, for someone like me, “setting the camera’s white balance at one fixed value and don’t change it” works really well.
It cuts down preparation time (I can shoot quickly), less prone to make mistakes, and, perhaps most importantly, it frees my mind (one less thing to think about).
These photos were taken yesterday morning.
I saw deer through the kitchen window while I was making coffee.
I turned off the stove, run to the bedroom and grabbed X-H2, and walked outside as quickly as I can without making sound.
What that means is I had no time to make any adjustment in camera setting.
(BTW, when I turn off the camera, I always turn aperture ring to wide open, and turn the focus ring to infinity. (I don’t use zoom lenses, I don’t use auto focus lenses) So that when I pick up the camera next time and turn it on, remove the lens cap, focus ring and aperture ring turn to ONLY ONE DIRECTION. (With Canon FD lenses, that means I rotate focus ring to CW, aperture ring to CCW.)
JPEG image the camera generated
XH2C4680 by
T K, on Flickr
Edit RAW file, but only the brightness and aperture
Clueless_1 by
T K, on Flickr
LUT applied, then some filters applied in PS.
Clueless_1_1 by
T K, on Flickr
JPEG generated by the camera
XH2C4683 by
T K, on Flickr
After editing with LUT and filters
Clueless_2_2 by
T K, on Flickr
Original photo (Camera generated JPEG)
XH2C4691 by
T K, on Flickr
After the edit
The Deer Hunter_1 by
T K, on Flickr
Original photo (camera generated JPEG)
XH2C4695 by
T K, on Flickr
Cropped, brightness and aperture adjusted
The Deer Hunter_2 by
T K, on Flickr
LUT and filters applied
The Deer Hunter_2_2 by
T K, on Flickr
Some people may think they would be perfectly okay with camera generated JPEG image, after seeing “before and after” images.
So far, I like the idea of shoot everything with 5500 Kelvin white balance.
