Color reproduction with Alpha

[Zahne]

I always take raw and edit the colors later.

 

[Chiacj]

NIce to have many clubsnappers sharing and discussing about colors from diff brands here.

I agreed that technique, and effort are most important, but colour too, is the one of the essence of photo taking.

However, when I began such thread , I was simply referring to taking a canon and a sony or another brand dslr and take a shot, especially a portrait shot.

The color is different, and personally what I feel is Sony has punchy colors! (Using A550).
Canon 5D seems to have an earthly tone for skin and nice balance in saturation - simply said, look more natural.

That being said, I have experimented in using WB to try and achieve the kind of feel and color that I sort after. For those who are interested, play around with the Kevin setting on WB: find the 'temperature' that your subject look most natural and add a bit of magenta cast to get a rosy feel. It's hard to tell exact settings as different lightings conditions are everywhere.

I had colleagues who look at my photos taken from Sony dslr, and say "wow!".

Let's enjoy taking photographs in every moment of our lives! Cheers to All.

 

[Aimevous]

NIce to have many clubsnappers sharing and discussing about colors from diff brands here.

I agreed that technique, and effort are most important, but colour too, is the one of the essence of photo taking.

However, when I began such thread , I was simply referring to taking a canon and a sony or another brand dslr and take a shot, especially a portrait shot.

The color is different, and personally what I feel is Sony has punchy colors! (Using A550).
Canon 5D seems to have an earthly tone for skin and nice balance in saturation - simply said, look more natural.

That being said, I have experimented in using WB to try and achieve the kind of feel and color that I sort after. For those who are interested, play around with the Kevin setting on WB: find the 'temperature' that your subject look most natural and add a bit of magenta cast to get a rosy feel. It's hard to tell exact settings as different lightings conditions are everywhere.

I had colleagues who look at my photos taken from Sony dslr, and say "wow!".

Let's enjoy taking photographs in every moment of our lives! Cheers to All.

Yep, I'm another firm believer in shooting in RAW. There's so much you can adjust after you shoot. Recently I was on a trip overseas and I didn't realise I was constantly overexposing a number of shots. Luckily it was in RAW and I could easily recover the shots and still play with the white balance. The color was a bit off due to the overexposure but nothing that some good post processing can't fix!

As many have said, its the person behind the camera, not the camera that counts!