Farm Girl

[ib2010]

[Golem]

Ghoulish. 

  

Possibly the shirt over-influenced the auto-WB ? 

  

Otherwise, a very decent shot thaz worth fixing.

[ib2010]

Ghoulish. 

  

Possibly the shirt over-influenced the auto-WB ? 

  

Otherwise, a very decent shot thaz worth fixing.

 

She was quite the fair skinned strawberry lass. Literally a pacific northwest apartment  girl visiting her grammy's farm.(Not seen much sun)  I think the auto white balance was quite good in this case. She had an older, very dominate sister, was skiddish and shy but i think this photo captured something special within. I'll keep the auto w/b tip in mind in the future, certainly could save the day.  (I shoot jpegs, straight out of camera,98% of the time)

[Golem]

...........  (I shoot jpegs, straight out of camera,98% of the time)

 

   

There is no reason to suppose a camera knows anything

about a subject. It's just a measuring and recording device.

   

Here's a minor fix, dealing only with the over image, IOW

no areas were selected for special treatment. Cuz it's the

overall image, a camera could have done this, if cameras

had any aesthetic sense ... but they don't. OTOH a Sony

camera has many features for fine tuning its rendering of

the overall image, such as the creative style groups.

    

This is far from perfect, but less scary. To really perfect an

image requires selecting specific areas, but if I did that I'd

not be mimicking what a camera can do on its own.  

 

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[ib2010]

Thanks for your observations and suggestions. I typically shoot , a routine i guess, straight up, aperture priority. Need to explore the creative styles more, to get a grip on what they can deliver in specific situations. With familiarity, i may be able, in a speedy manner, to get the most out of the camera , in fleeting moments. (which seems to always be the case)

[Golem]

I never try to deal in a hurry, or fleeting moment, with creative styles. 

Thaz what post is for. But I have chosen and adjusted a couple of

those, which between them cover all situations. I have one for indoor

and one for daylight. Sony caters too much to the OCD geeks with

all their pre-labeled creative styles [portrait, landscape, etc etc] and

for quite a while that led me to ignore them, kinda seeing them as a 

crutch for the brain dead. Then I somehow realized that they were a

collection of ADJUSTABLE pre-sets and can actually be useful. Why

we need ten of them is a mystery, but setting up 2 or 3 of them for

vastly differing conditions means you choose one, at the start of any

long session and then stay with it. I see it as similar to choosing film

types. You load up a film thaz approximately best for conditions you

expect to encounter, and then you stick with it.

  

Speaking of film, it's an example that post has always been with us.

Negative films had to be printed. In case someone is unaware, that

includes color correction, and controls of brightness and contrast.

Transparency films were mainly for publication. A huge amount of

post occurs in making and using 4-color printing plates. The idea of

images ready to view/display straight out of the camera may be the

holy grail but most images routinely require post.