Nope, not a post about SJW’s screeching about an insufficiency of diversity in STEM fields. Instead… photography.
Your average modern decent camera has a white balance setting that allows you to choose from settings such as direct sunlight, incandescent lighting, fluorescent lighting, etc. The idea is that you can get photos that look right even if the lighting is off.
Trouble is, sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s “right.” Below are four late-night panoramas. The two that look “bluish” use the “incandescent” setting; the apocalypse-orange ones use “sunlight.” The latter are the closest to real, I think, in that the clouds and skyglow are lit up by a vast number of sodium incandescent lights. When the white balance is set to “incandescent,” the horizontal panorama looks ok to me, but the vertical one… well, I’m torn. The bluish one kinda looks better (especially the horizon), but the orangish one captures the colors of the Milky Way better.
Opinions?
