Photshop CS Color temps

[frankgh]

I've been playing with PS CS converter and have found using the custom white balance works well. On an odd note, shots taken in daylight; I slide the color temp bar down to around 3600-4000 and shots taken in daylight under a blue sky look really good. A daylight setting of 5500 just looks to pink to me. Is this a white balance problem with the camera? (shot on auto)

I posted the above question the other day in another thread but I have some more I want to add to it. After converting more images, it seems a drop of 700-1000 deg works no matter what the "as shot" setting is. Now, I have only seen this in PS CS convertions. The fuji LE converter works fine and has you know allows no controle over convertion. My monitor is calibrated and prints look good. Anyone else notice anything like this?

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[Tom V]

I haven't really noticed what you've noticed. I shoot mostly indoors with studio stobes for my RAW stuff. I do want to get outdoors and shoot more. My recent Tree Nursery shoot was done outdoors using RAW, and when I used Photoshop CS to open the RAW files, I think I used 5500k for everything. The after dark shot of the two trees is not a fair test, but I think I ended up using 5500K as well, because a major portion of the light was from a flash.

Are you using a filter on your lens? I could see how that could easily affect images shot with Non-Auto WB. Some lenses might have warm filters, others cool? Lenses themselves can add color shifts. See the thread comparing the Sigma 50-500 with the Nikon 80-400, there is quite a difference, warmth wise between the two.

http://theswampbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3047

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[frankgh]

Yeah, I read that thread but all the shots were taken with the same lens and no filter. It's not really a problem, it just seemed strange and I was wondering if anyone else saw what I was seeing.