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They don't in Mexico though. I just looked up some of the reasoning behind it, quite interesting...

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/200...c-ucf101701.php

Many people think beer tastes bad all the time, while others, who enjoy the alcoholic malt beverage, believe it turns "skunky" only when it isn’t handled properly.

Now chemists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill say they have figured out precisely what goes wrong with beer to give it that offensive "light-struck" flavor.

"Understanding mechanisms behind changes in beer tastes is important because the world beer industry is hoping to save money by storing, shipping and selling beer in less expensive clear glass," Forbes said. "Producers of Miller Genuine Draft, for example, already do that by adding a chemically modified hop compound to the beer. We have found evidence that Miller beer is still photochemically active, but it doesn’t make the same free radicals, and so those can’t lead to bad-tasting skunky thiols as quickly."

Corona beer also is sold in clear bottles, but manufacturers do not used a modified hop product, he said. Instead, they usually keep their bottles boxed to exclude light and encourage drinkers to add a slice of lime to improve the odor.

"Corona is marketed extremely cleverly," the chemist said.

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Nice one Despin.

Couple of tips though - watch your white balance as skin tones can be an arse to get right. Also, focus on the eye balls and then compose the shot. It's all about the eyes :unsure:

How would you rectify this out of interest? Isn't it simply a case of moving the slider more towards the warm end of the scale when you edit your RAW?

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How would you rectify this out of interest? Isn't it simply a case of moving the slider more towards the warm end of the scale when you edit your RAW?

You can edit the raw, or change the WB in camera. If you're editing the raw your editor should have some sort of dropper tool you can use to select what should be white.

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Also, get your monitor calibrated and watch the RGB histogram, for example ther red channel might be far more on the right than green and blue. It depends on what you've shot though :unsure:

The problem with a color picker is that you could pick up a point which is in fact noise, what would result in a wrong colour. Nikon Capture therefore uses a selection to base the white balance on, and takes the average colour of that selection. You could do the same in Photoshop, but it's a bit more work.

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Ah, I use Lightroom. There's a dropper tool, but I never thought to use it tbh. I just tend to tinker till it looks 'right' by my judgment. I guess the dropper is the way to go, unless the scene doesn't contain any white objects of course. Ta fellas. :unsure:

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Interesting. Is that the same in Lightroom? Or does it use a selection?

Lightroom creates a zoomed in view of the pixels of where you want to set the white balance, so at leas that makes it easier to see what you're doing. Maybe `under water` it uses a selection, but I doubt it myself.

Personally, I never do the selection thing in Photoshop or whatever, I use the presets in DPP (Canon software) first, and if that doesn´t work out I´ll just use the color picker and adjust to where I think it looks nice :unsure:

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You can get a piece of card (or plastic?) that's slightly grey can't you, to help your camera calculate the WB. I might look into that one day.

Even if you see something white-ish laying about and set the WB to that, at least it'll give to a better starting point once you eventually reach the computer.

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I like that grassy shot too, great use of the person for scale.

I worked 10 hours on a festival on Saturday, was strange shooting music shots in daylight. Allowed me to use decent apertures and high shutter speeds which was a nice change, trouble was that it was hard to get anything interesting lighting wise. Stage was set up a bit high and the pit was massive so to get a decent sort of angle I had to move back and actually used the 70-200 f4L for 90% of the shots.

Million Dans DJ chilling back stage in the sun.

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Soweto Kinch with the crowd in his shades.

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Skinnyman striking a pose.

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There's a BW version of this one in a comment on Flickr but I think the colour version has a little something extra.

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