White balance

I don't believe I have spent so much time on a batch of badly taken photos. I mean... come on... WB is perhaps one of the easiest setting one can fiddle with on ANY digital camera... and reading a user manual is not that hard is it? Most cameras are already doing all the calculations for you and with these fancy live view / LCD real time display, it's totally easy to look at how a change in this single setting can make pictures look 1000 times better.

BUT NO ONE CHANGES IT!

I'm talking about tech guys. Those who sit in front of puters doing programming and coding day in day out. I thought they should be techie, and techie should be able to deal with machines and cameras are machines so there should be no problem at all.

I was so wrong.

The batch I worked on came from 3 different cameras: Panny LX-2, Nikon D-90 and a Fuji I don't remember the model number... I bet that means 3 different people. The panny person sucks... only knew how to use wide angle for group photo and 1/2 of the pictures were out foucus. The Nikon person... I mean come on, it was a DSLR... why not learn to use it properly? I think that was the yellowest photo I have ever seen in my life. Fuji person, I don't blame you, the WB works terrible on my first DC.

Perhaps cameras are just like branded bags - no one really care about the design, it's the label that tells other that you have taste / money / trendy mind to use it.

I don't even want to go into photo composition...

Lesson of the day: not all those who can afford expensive cameras can call themselves photographer. Read the user manuals!