Geeees – you know I have shot way too many images when you start to remember things you screwed up in images that you are not even looking at.

RB

Sorry not the door knob that is another very similar shot that I was thinking of – in this shoot it’s the interaction of the wrist ant the end of the railing on the stairs in the background. Same thing though. I was too too focused on getting the hand and lines in the tile working well and blew the banister/wrist/arm interaction.

RB

I would have shot these on film if I was serious about them. I actually shot them off the cuff while preping for another project entirely. I just liked the way the girl and the outfit and the scene worked together.

RB

Ps. The shadow noise is not the thing that bothers me about the top image – it’s the door knob that I totally missed when shooting this on the fly. I am not so careless when shooting a comp for “real”.

Of note is that Nikon recently (in the last 3 weeks) released firmware updates for the D700, D300, and D3 that addressed an AWB issue. Your way is most consistent, but it doesn’t hurt to have all the help you can get from a manufacturer standpoint.

Since it has become popular, I think it worth mentioning that although noise reduction software like Noise Ninja or Nik Dfine isn’t really a must with the latest DSLR’s it is most appreciated and useful when working with cell phone images.

Jason

PS: You should have shot the top image on film and you wouldn’t need to worry about such things. The shadows would have been much nicer as well. It’s still a great image. Could be a 007 poster if you had a gun in there somewhere. If it was out of focus with a rusty, broken gun it could be a fine art 007 poster.

A bunch of typos but don’t have time to deal with them right now. One other note – the reason that this is a tricky WB situation is that the light coming from the left side is extremely cool – as in BLUE it is the sky with no sun and that is being reflected again off of a BLUE pool. The that is blowing out the window up in the left corner is very very warm low angle direct sun. Auto WB will vacillate between the two extremes depending on how much of which one “it sees” as well as everywhere in between.

RB

Ps. the exposure was manual set it and forget it as well for the same reason.