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georgweb · 12-01-2008, 05:05 PM

jms,
something strange with your avatar, blown white balance maybe :-)

The links that jeffkrol posted are recommending what he said, use a light blue filter (80A,80B) on your DSLR.

I am wondering wether you can achieve the effect of that filter with manual white balance. The linked posts say No for a daylight-WB-optimized DSLR.

Actually I have such a blue filter from the film days cause it was the only thing that helped for my frequent stage shootings.

And yes if I just shoot RAW (+WB tungsten is the coolest I can get) and then push into the blues in PP, all other colors go blueish. Especially black clothes get very purple.

So, I will try next time manual WB on some reddish stage lights or whitish surfaces lit by those lights (+RAW). And I'll take the blue filter, but it is only 55mm and the lens is 86mm :-) And it will eat another stop of light. Do I need a fullframe easy peasy 3200ISO DSLR? ДڪЖڮЮڴ☼њ♣♫

Here's what it looks like with RAW+tungstenWB with PP-corrected skins (that is the best I could get, originally the faces are red smudge). K100D with 200/2.8 lens. Of course dimly lit stages with yellow-reddish lamps are not of benefit :-(

12-01-2008, 05:05 PM	#4
georgweb Loyal Member Location: Berlin, Germany Gallery Photos: 2 Posts: 615	jms, something strange with your avatar, blown white balance maybe :-) The links that jeffkrol posted are recommending what he said, use a light blue filter (80A,80B) on your DSLR. I am wondering wether you can achieve the effect of that filter with manual white balance. The linked posts say No for a daylight-WB-optimized DSLR. Actually I have such a blue filter from the film days cause it was the only thing that helped for my frequent stage shootings. And yes if I just shoot RAW (+WB tungsten is the coolest I can get) and then push into the blues in PP, all other colors go blueish. Especially black clothes get very purple. So, I will try next time manual WB on some reddish stage lights or whitish surfaces lit by those lights (+RAW). And I'll take the blue filter, but it is only 55mm and the lens is 86mm :-) And it will eat another stop of light. Do I need a fullframe easy peasy 3200ISO DSLR? ДڪЖڮЮڴ☼њ♣♫ Here's what it looks like with RAW+tungstenWB with PP-corrected skins (that is the best I could get, originally the faces are red smudge). K100D with 200/2.8 lens. Of course dimly lit stages with yellow-reddish lamps are not of benefit :-( Last edited by georgweb; 12-01-2008 at 05:14 PM.