| Re: gray balance before taking photos and GTI N8 The N8 picture definitely looks "warmer", so that makes me wonder if GTI did that deliberately (would make skin tones "glow" more). The N8 screen looks reddish in that picture (which is very odd because you'd think if I pointed at it and said "that's grey", it would be grey). The steam heat pipe in the corner is definitely reddish in that picture, but is painted with beige high-temp paint spray that you can buy from Home Depot. The beige paint on the wall is definitely beige and has no reddish tint to it in real life, even if it looks relatively warm in the N8 picture.
So for actual colors of the objects, the WhiBal one probably is more realistic. However, under the ambient light, everything does have a yellowish tone like the autowhitebalanced pic.
Of course, then I'm viewing this on an uncalibrated monitor (although it has been pretty accurate when I compare photos w/ what people say they took), so who knows? All this calibration stuff is pretty complicated :-) |