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I stopped using auto color balance on my landscape shots after a guy at the Grand Canyon pointed at my screen and laughed
I used to run every photo through auto color in Lightroom until a photographer next to me at Mather Point said my sunset looked like a 'neon taco' and he was kind of right. Now I set my white balance in camera before I even take the shot and only tweak the temp slider by hand, and last week I got a print order from a gallery in Flagstaff for two shots. Anyone else feel like auto tools make you forget what colors actually looked like that day?
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elizabeth22019d ago
That neon taco comment at Mather Point would have stung me too, but honestly your story gives me hope. I fell into the same trap with auto white balance for years and my shots all came out looking the same, so hearing that you got two prints into a Flagstaff gallery just by setting it yourself makes me want to finally turn that button off. It really does mess with your memory of what the light actually looked like.
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