[meteorite-list] OT- color/camera issues

[Darren Garrison]

On Fri, 7 May 2010 15:32:51 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>example - this is not what it looks like. Its Greyish and white to natural light, but this is how it comes out photographed...
>http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c165/jedisdiamond/345gb.jpg
>
>Any help or advise from anyone that knows about these things?

Maybe a problem with your color balance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_balance

Where your camera is set for one type of lighting (florescent, incandescent,
sunlight) and you are actually photograhing under a different type of light.
Different light sources actually produce much different specta of light-- the
human brain is very skilled at adapting to different lighting conditions to look
"right" to you-- CCDs much less so.

This is the image ran through the "automatic color balance" filter in PaintShop
Pro 9, set to the default of 6500K.  Does it look more like the actual
meteorite?

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2020/colorbalanced.jpg