THE PROBLEM WITH EVENING LIGHT AND WHITE BALANCE

Friday, December 02, 2005

It is common understanding that the best time for photography is when the sun is near the horizon - morning or evening. It pretty much worked fine for me until a few days ago when I came home with some bird images taken in the warm evening light. The trouble is - the white balance of the image had gone completely out of place and the true color of the image was not seen. I did try to do some salvaging by resetting the white balance in the RAW image and more. But it still did not gain the true colors. I guess even if someone would be able to get the perfect colors, it is likely to be hard work. This particular image hardly has any neutral shades which makes it even hard to fix the image by fixing the neutrals. Here is an example of image - of a rose ringed parakeet taken that day. The real color of the bird is in the next image which was taken at a different place and time(early in the morning).


The rose ringed parakeet taken in evening light


Original colors of Rose Ringed Parakeet