Club walk

It's not negative criticism, but to my eye we are dealing with some purple rendition in most pictures, alas. A bit distracting, but your subject is certainly very appealing and interesting. My fave is the shot (#5) with steps in the middle. Great scenery.

B&w renditions are also very engaging.

I just wonder if this is maybe Fuji colour interpretation rather than pp.

Basically all colour ones I am afraid.
Still, #5 is brilliant (imho).

Well, slight purple tinge is visible, to me. Maybe it's a Fuji colour signature, or Provia simulator?! Short of comparison with your team mates cameras I am at a loss...
Still, I vote for #5!!!

the purple tint is baked into the film sim your using. thats what film sims do.

The B&Ws look nice but the colour ones don't do much for me.

If sooc jpegs and/or images pp'd from them give you images you like then that is all well and good.

But if you need maximum control and maximum options over the final output image then you need to convert and process the raw files manually.

Using sooc jpegs you are relying on the camera to get the raw conversion correct before you do any suitable editing of the sooc jpeg.

Ok, then since you processed the raw files you have full control over the final image.

Fwiw, this is a quick conversion of your linked raw file in PSE's ACR.

To come back to your set, I like the composition of the steps disappearing into the distance.

As for colour casts; cloudy days are devilishly difficult, regarding this aspect.

Yes, though when enlarged, the bluishness is less objectionable..

I downloaded your raw file and looked at it in Photolab. I cannot see any significant difference to the colours. I used to have this problem with similar analog photos on overcast days in the north of England (e.g. Ilkley moor) and had to use a filter to avoid it. I suggest that next time in similar circumstances you take a photo of a grey card (or white shirt or handkerchief!) And use that as a reference for colour temperature correction. This is easily done in PL, but I dont know how in other software. (Photoshop "Auto Colour" did not improve it.)

On another matter, the resolution of your raw file when it arrived here was much worse than the OOC jpeg you have posted. This is most obvious looking at the gate in the middle of the picture. On the RAF file it looks quite blurred by comparison. Odd!

David

I don't see why it should be just because it's overcast or unless someone uses sooc jpegs where the white balance is baked into the jpeg's rgb data. If shooting raw the white balance is set manually to whatever you like in the raw converter app without being limited to the fixed options in the camera.

In Alan's case it seems one of the default settings in his raw converter, as described earlier, is causing his color cast issue.

This is a quick and basic raw conversion of Alan's raw file using PSE's ACR. I don't see any colour cast on my screen.

I would think all reputable raw converters have a white balance tool.

In the absence of using a grey card, a quick way of setting at least a good white balance starting point is to use the white balance tool to click on something that is supposed to be a neutral colour (r=g=b) in the scene.

The lighter the neutral colour the better as it is more likely to be less noisy than a dark neutral color because of the relatively larger amount of light recorded by the sensor for that part of the scene.