<<< Jim's shot looks great the way it is. But if you had something to compare it to, say an image that more accurately reflects the world the mind creates, >>> Shawn I know what you are saying: it's the difference between perception and physics. We see colour: instruments including cameras can ony record wavelengths (colour is NOT a physical quantity). Within limits the eye-brain system seems able to do it's own on-the-fly white balance. <<<you might decided that the color adjustment (note, that's adjustment not correction) improves an already strong shot. >>> My point was that Jim's shot already looks exactly like I would expect the scent to have looked through the viewfinder. My untrained eye is quite happy to see (without on-the-fly correction) the warmth of late afternoon sun. Automatic scene-based white balance is doomed to fail when the predominant tones in an image really were (and were perceived to be :) ither than neutral. As someone said: if you have taken a sunset because of the rich red of the sky do you really want it grey? Bob
