new to RAW

[racketman]

sorry for a dumb question but when you adjust WB in Digital Photo Professional and it gives you a choice from daylight, cloudy, flash etc and you have been shooting close ups in flash which would you choose? Is it better to just play with temperature control until it looks right?

[col4bin]

I too am new to RAW and I only use the presets as a starting point. There is no better method of fine tuning than what appeals to my eye.

[condyk]

Play by all means but I prefer my eyes to tell me what looks right.

[jfrancho]

Only depend on your eyes if your monitor has been profiled and calibrated.

[condyk]

Only depend on your eyes if your monitor has been profiled and calibrated.

It has ;)

[tim]

When you mix light sources of different temperatures things get hard. I shoot RAW and do a blended exposure if parts of the image are different temperatures. If it's a mixture just play with the sliders until it looks right. In the old days photographers put filters over their flash.

[jfrancho]

It has ;)I know yours is :).

[tzalman]

Flash units are usually standardized at 5600 degrees which is more or less the color of daylight (on June 21 at Noon on the Equator??), so if your converter lacks a flash preset, Daylight should be close.
Elie