civilized ku # 149 ~ color me warm

Mom drinks, the Eagles win, all is right with the world • click to embiggenThis past Sunday evening in south Jersey a bunch of the wife's siblings and in-laws (or outlaws as we are sometimes referred to) took mom out for a drink. The bar / restaurant (managed by one of mom's grandchildren) was stoked up with Philadelphia Eagles fever as they (the Eagles) laid a licking on the Dallas Cowboys and thereby, against all odds, squeaked into the playoffs. All was right with the world.

Photography-wise, I was snapping away with ISO 400 @ 1/6 sec. and with the WB set for daylight which, of course, renders the scene's color "inaccurately". I do so because, for most artificially lit interior scenes, the warm color rendering helps preserve the feeling / ambiance of most places.

Although, I must admit to post-processing the color results - first in my RAW conversion and then fiddling / fine tuning in PS - to a point about halfway between daylight (5200K) and tungsten (3200K). That point does vary depending upon the light source color temperature in as much as when the light source is pure tungsten (3200K) I process the WB to a point closer to the "correct" setting in order to avoid too much "warmth".

In any event, it's safe to say that, when it comes to indoor color, I have no cast-in-stone color standard. I just work it until it looks and feels right.