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This one is a look at how powerful editing software is today. As with most arena shows, the lights were changing a lot and I was constantly changing settings to try to account for them. When I took this photo, I had no idea that the color was so jacked up because I have my in-camera previews set to show me monochromatic images. I have little, if any control over the white balance of my images while shooting because the lighting changes so often. So instead of seeing color previews that would have probably caused me to discard this image, I use monochrome because it allows me to see the worst case scenario where I can't get close on the color adjustments and make it black and white. This allows me to focus solely on the things I have control of while I'm shooting, focus, exposure and composition.

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