Dear Joey,
you make me bush😊
Dear Brian, I have not understood completely what you meant, because I do not use any photo editor at all. I may be wrong, but I do not rely in principle on a software that can correct the white balance with absolute certainty. It must be judged from the user I think, hence subjective. Or, if it does it automatically, how can it know for sure the color temperature of the light involved, without a reference? BTW I may be wrong.
In any case, in my opinion setting the White Balance on place by means of a white or neutral grey paper is absolutely sure and extremely quick, so I prefer that and always do it.
In any case, we see that the glass of your bottle is indeed colorless; there are some yellowish tinge that it is due to the decoration.
Kind regards
Giovanni
Hi Giovanni,
Ideally, I would have had a professional camera where I could have locked down exposure and ensured proper white balance with a reference card. Alas, I only had 1.5 hours to take pictures of roughly 100 bottles and it was at my parent's house where I had none of my photographic equipment. And that was six pictures for each bottle, so I only had 1 minute or so per bottle! So speed was definitely a priority. I just used my iPhone to take the pictures in the little photo box I bought my father for Christmas. Unfortunately, that meant that each photo that I took had its own exposure, which can effect the color balance. I had to tweak all of the photos "by hand". Not ideal, but at least I have photos of everything now.
Brian
