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« Reply #50 on: March 13, 2015, 07:43 »
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I did boost vibrance, and reduced the blue channel.

But reading all the comments makes me think WB is as subjective as composition. Which makes it hard to figure out what they want. WB has never been a major issue for me and now it is.

Still dont know how to determine what is a correct WB but I will read up about it.

I think it is probably relevant that just from looking at the photo I could determine adjustments you had made to the colour, taking it away from the original exposure. My guess is that the inspectors did the same thing. If you are going to mess with colours it needs to be done in a way that an experienced photographer can't see. Remember that we aren't selling artworks, we are selling pictures to form the raw material that is going to be manipulated by a designer.


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« Reply #51 on: March 13, 2015, 08:26 »
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Makes sense Paul, let me give it a try. I may have messed those door images up by reducing blue.

Still loads of questions surrounding some WB rejections.

But I am wiser now because I started this thread and got some very good input. So thanks to all for commenting.


« Reply #53 on: March 13, 2015, 11:33 »
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But it becomes a problem when the reviewers tell you this

Hmm, I guess they added WB as an only reason lately, when I was getting WB rejections it was together with light... Posting some of you photos could help - I can only think of a strong color cast. Sometimes I'm so much involved in retouching that I do not see the color cast that I'm adding to image... But tomorrow when I see the same retouched image it appears totally different :)

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« Reply #54 on: March 13, 2015, 12:01 »
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Photos on page 1

Photos on page 2
« Last Edit: March 16, 2015, 07:09 by Semmick Photo »

« Reply #55 on: March 16, 2015, 06:54 »
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Couldn't find them...

Anyway, as somebody already mentioned, our brain changes reality, which is actually correctly captured by camera.

The best example - one interesting experience from skiing: I have a purple ski goggles, so snow should appear purple when you see through them, but actually not, show appears white. But what happens when you remove the goggles from the eyes: First few seconds the show appears greenish, then goes to white.

So, our brain applies the opposite color filter to purple - it is green, and a few seconds after you remove goggles - the filter is still there, until it normalizes and become white...


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« Reply #56 on: March 16, 2015, 07:08 »
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Apologies, I meant page 2

Semmick Photo

« Reply #57 on: April 28, 2015, 14:32 »
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I learned something this week and it seems to be solving some questions. I shoot in auto WB on my 6D but on the RAW images in LR all presents are set at 0. So the WB recorded in camera doesnt translate to the RAW image. This causes a wrong WB, which I dont see on the JPGs. The JPGs all look good. Unfortunately when submitting a batch of JPGs straight from camera they were also rejected for WB amongst other things, so it doesnt seem to matter for the reviewers. They just ram that reject button home for whatever nonsense reasons.

« Reply #58 on: April 29, 2015, 03:38 »
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Hm, I've seen your photos, and can not say anything technically wrong... It might be that they just don't like tonality, for example you have a photo that is kind of yellowish and gray (some old door), could be that it lacks the vibrance because of overall tonality of the photo, and then than say as a reason "light" or WB.

But that is highly subjective, so after resubmitting, big chance it will be accepted. I think a lots of subjective rejections are allowed in SS - when just some reviewer don't like the picture - it is the reason of rejection, but with another one is the different story.


 

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