Look I have 20 years taking pictures and had a dozen cameras before. IT IS NOT A BALANCE ISSUE. If you cannot see that there is a HUGE difference in dynamic range between the backyard picture and the other pictures than dont help me. Of course is not a balance issue.
you said : after some sharpening,color saturation and local contrast.
It still looks like garbage. Am i the only one that sees that the backyard picture even after treatment still looks like garbage?
the color balance was sunny. Because it is a sunny day. Probably those flickr pictures also where white balanced as sunny. No reason to do otherwise. The card color checker would be a great idea but dont have one. Maybe i could shoot a perfectly white piece of paper.
I feel like i woke up from a nightmare, after 3 years I found out that my pictures are rendering in a redish way.
I always asked myself why when using green filters my camera is rendering better colors?
I always thought it was either my old lens takumar which was the only one lens I had all this...