Shoot something white!

I shot something white fresh off the presses, hey, where's yours.?   

Never auto w/b, I always use the K, I think 5200 for this one.
Resize for web, sRGB, slight edge burn. That's all folks.

Oooo...pretty!!!! I love the pinks and blues mixed in with the white. I love swans. Where did you take this??


I'm at work. The only thing white here is my lab coat and my patient's bottom. I promise I'll get something tonight or tomorrow.

Okay, here are mine. I used auto white balance, because I have no experience using anything else and I don't have a light meter. Post processing was cropping, picking a white point, and doing a black and white conversion on the first one. Oh, and I cloned out some dust on my dirty floor, ha ha. I did not change anything else. C&C welcome!

Yeah. I knew that.  Uh huh....

Alrighty, here's my white subject.  It's not an artistic shot.  It is documentary from my daughter's birthday party. 
The cake was delicious by the way, it was fudgy chocolate with buttercream frosting (under the fondant).
I had to take poor Barbie to a hairdresser.  She was so cute in the box with ringlets in her hair, but when I opened her she had frizzy matted hair in the back.  She was a collector edition Barbie, I guess she was meant to be left in the box.  I was so disappointed because I bought her especially for this cake.
Anyway, shot with auto white balance (I had to take a little magenta cast out in Photoshop, no big deal), I bounced the flash off the ceiling and wall at an angle. 

Edit: I should also mention, I shot in P mode, I used the exposure compensation so the white wouldn't fool my camera into an underexposure.

I thought it was more of a blue/green.
What does that have to do with P mode?

Here is a couple of pics of Kelvin Temp of lighting conditions.
Shooting Mode has nothing to do with Kelvin.

Concentrate on the 4th row Kelvin, from there, you can determine to lower the K in whatever the lighting condition is.

For my D200
I found that 4900-5000 in the studio using photogenics was a good choice, not 5400-5500 which was too warm.
Outside 5200, I'll double check that one.
In CS3, both jpeg and raw files can be opened in camera raw, just a slight tweak on the temp gage is needed if need be.