After reading Alex's article about a year ago on "muddy blues" I tended to start paying attention to the blues in my shots. If you white balance the RAW file after shooting, the blues tend to be a muddy color. Adjust sliders in Photoshop tends to help with this but raises noise in the blue background. Shooting to get the blues right underwater, helps eliminate the muddy appearance of the blues and gives you a pleasing blue background with low noise. I wish I could reference the article, but can't remember where I read it.
I'm not sure that's the case.
If you are shooting RAW you should have the flexibility to set a white balance in post with no additional penalty over "getting it right" in the camera.
If that is the case, I would love to hear someone explain why that is so ...
I'm not sure that's the case.
If you are shooting RAW you should have the flexibility to set a white balance in post with no additional penalty over "getting it right" in the camera.
If that is the case, I would love to hear someone explain why that is so ...
Jeremy - I can only tell you about my experience. I too was a little blown away by Alex's article so I went out and proved exactly what he was discussing. I'm going to guess and say it is partically because the water column, in particular the cyan color, distorts what is truly "white" and fools the software.
Jeremy - I can only tell you about my experience. I too was a little blown away by Alex's article so I went out and proved exactly what he was discussing. I'm going to guess and say it is partically because the water column, in particular the cyan color, distorts what is truly "white" and fools the software.
I hear ya ... and it wouldn't be the first counter-intuitive head-scratcher I've encountered in the world of underwater digital imagery.
Maybe Alex and/or Craig (or others) can help us get to the bottom of this.
