Reverting back to jpg

I was playing around with my camera today. First I reset my usual settings back to \”normal\”, with both contrast and saturation back to \”0\” (normally I have them at \”-2\”). Then, still indoors, I took a custom white balance photo and stored it in the camera. And finally, I set my picture parameters from jpg \”fine\” plus raw to just jpg \”super fine\”.

Which means that I *have to* get everything right in camera. No post processing, no tricks, no safety net. Oh, and because my Olympus camera exposes for the highlights just a bit (which makes images darker but \”protects\” those highlights from bleeding out), I also decided to ignore that and set a + 0.3EV correction. Maybe I\’ll keep those settings for a while, just to get used to doing things right, because I\’m forcing myself to.

Those indoor shots are boring of course, just interesting for myself. So I set the white balance back to \”auto\”, with the option to \”keep warm colours = off\”, and went outside to have a smoke. To get a nice and dark sky in the evenings with any automatic settings, you have to apply some negative correction, minus 1 is like my base setting for night shots. And with my newly assumed standard setting of + 0.3, minus 1 from there means – 0.7 in total. Simple enough that I can still do this without much thinking at all. I let the ISO on \”auto\” as well, so it went up to my default max setting of 800. Et voilà, here\’s my out-of-camera-during-a-smoke shot:

A quiet evening, almost autumn. Olympus E-PL5 and PanaLeica 25mm/1.4.

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