What, hmmm …
[Editor: Sox lazing on my bathrobe in the chair shows a couple of the problems I need to address with the camera. The room light is yellow as it is all indirect and coming off of beige paint, and his pupils are so expanded that you can’t see the eye color. I may need a spotlight to get the colors right, but the camera works in low light.
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I think you may need a color correction filter for off-chroma lighting of this sort. Some cameras have a software setting to do this, but the best ones are thingies you stick on the end of your lens. Check out a camera enthusiast site for more info on that, it’s just one of the many expensive things that made me realize that I had not the stomach for yet another expensive habit. I have a Jeep to feed, after all ;).
Or check your white balance settings you should be able to remove that sort of cast.
While I’m using the camera initially for point-and-shoot, it will compensate for this type of problem with white balance and hue controls. My concern was actually getting a picture of Sox before he decided to wander off, as is his want.
He will be inert for hours and then go on a tear without warning. I know the camera can do something about this, if I can locate the proper controls. This means I need to find the manual CD and load it.
I could probably ‘fix’ it in my editing software, but I prefer to limit my efforts to cropping and resizing for the space in my template.
The best way to fix it is at the analog stage before it enters the lens and encounters the digital sensor, because that’s the only way to fix it without losing information. It’s sort of like digital audio compressors vs. analog audio compressors. I’ve messed with the digital compressors of all different types and none of them work as well as a plain old tube-type analog compressor in-line with your recording microphone, which handles the dynamics at the analog stage long before it hits the digital stage.
But then again, you’re shooting cat photos. So I suppose digital tweaks would be “good enough” for this purpose :).
If I was using the Pentax, I have the filter, but this Nikon doesn’t accept them. You can make the adjustments before you take the picture, so they are included, not tweaked later. I just need to read the manual and then experiment.
Even with 12 megapixels it will never have the detail I could get with the Pentax, nor the true colors, but it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg to develop and print the film.
I still have to compress to fit in the 510 pixel width of the page, and a lot of detail is lost on that move alone, because it is usually a better that 1 to 2 compression/resizing.
I’ll probably use bright white paper to adjust to in the lighting to see what is necessary. That should be some exciting pictures – blank paper in a chair.
Gosh, I wonder how Sox got his name? His little feeties show up just fine!
He was named by the daughters in his first home, and I kept it when I ‘rescued’ him and Dot.
The ‘Sox’ should be white, not beige.