Wonders of Active D-Lighting



First Snow, originally uploaded by jjvornov.

I found just a few moments before sunset to capture a few images of our first snow of the year in Baltimore. The D300’s metering was right on although the snow was rendered very blue by the Auto White Balance.

Oddly, I had trouble with white balance on uploading to Flickr, a problem I’ve never had before. Usually I get a good color match between Aperture and Flickr on the calibrated monitor.

Also oddly, Flickr made Picnik available today for editing photographs for the first time today and I was able to reset the white balance on line to something reasonable. Perhaps something in Flickr has changed, affecting whitebalance or embedded profiles. Snow is clearly a very sensitive subject when it comes to white balance.

Author: James Vornov

I'm an MD, PhD Neurologist who left a successful academic career on the Faculty of The Johns Hopkins Medical School to develop new treatments in Biotech and Pharma. I became fascinated with how people actually make decisions based on the science of decision theory and emerging understanding of how the brain works to make decisions. My passion now is this deep explanation of what has been the realm of philosophy, psychology and self help but is now understood as brain function. By understanding our brains, I believe we can become happier, more successful people.

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