Glasses

Experimenting with manual white balance. This picture taken at 5560 K,

set manually gave 'original' colors compared to one taken with Auto WB

which gave a "blue and white" color rendition.

I like the toning and quality of light. The composition, however, seems a bit stilted.

Thanks Bob, would you prefer the glasses to be right in the middle?

In good hands also simple things are protagonist!...Ciaomau!

Eye pleaser abstract. I first thought the center composition for the glasses but it would brake the white curves really badly from the BG. I like how they flow out of the shot from the right hand side. Cheers.

Love the composition - a great one on which to practice.

 

As for the color - I downloaded your image to play. I personally prefer less browns, more blue. The glasses look more "glass-like" and the image has a more modern, cutting edge appearance.

 

Just for grins, here's your image with a PS CS4 Cooling Photo Filter applied.

 

What do you think?

 

Cheers ~

Alberta

Thanks Alberta for taking time and interest in my photo! Yes, I agree, a slight cooling adds to the effect of sharpness and stillife. You worked it nicely.

 

However my point is that when I took the picture, the actual light and effect was close to what my shot shows and what I want to convey is that camera's auto white balance most of the time renders inaccurate temperature.

Point well taken, Apurva.

 

I've owned my Nikon D200 for almost 3 years now. I started out setting the white balance manually and soon found myself spending way too much time with PS getting the photo more visually appealing - to where the auto white balance setting would probably have shot.

 

It's a matter of preference - and memory. The photo lives much longer than the eye remembers :)

 

Cheers ~

Alberta