I know you all haven't finished the last assignment yet, but I really do need to move on since we are already way behind.
I now want to turn to the topic of White Balance. White Balance is explained on page 62 of the book. When I'm finished posting this, I am going to post two examples below of differing color temperatures: One "cool" image and and "warm." It's pretty straightforward.
The terms cool and warm don't refer to the actual temperatures, but instead to the color temperature of the light. A white balance adjustment would be the process of "correcting" the warmth or coolness of the light and consequent colors. This business of "correcting" the color temperature is all subjective, of course.
Over the next few days, let's say by Thursday, lets post some good examples of "warm" and "cool" images. If you only have a good example of one, just post one. If you feel you have neither, don't worry about it. Just sit back and learn.
I have been going back and looking thru some of my photos and when using a large aperture(small f#) I'm not getting that shallow depth of field like in your example. What am I doing wrong. I am usually using a shutter speed of 1/125. I was told by another photographer that was a safe shutter speed to shoot with and to adjust your aperture and Iso settings. How do you usually shoot? Do you have common settings that you use quite frequent in situations or are they always different?
And with the white balance I have my camera set on Auto white balance is this where it should be or should I change that for the conditions(direct sunlight,cloudy,shade) and I'm also shooting in Raw. When you say making a White Balance adjustment in your examples are you talking about with the camera settings or when editing.
Michelle, I replied in your example why I think this is the case. The greater the distance between the subject and the background, the more pronounced the shallow depth of field will be..
I never have preset settings for anything. 1/125 doesn't mean in particular so that person told you wrong. It might be good for some situations and not good for others. It's too arbitrary.
Auto WB is fine but just for kicks, you should experiment with different WB settings as you are learning, just so you know and see the difference. If you shoot in RAW, you really don't have to worry about the WB setting on your camera because you set the WB when you process the image in the RAW converter.
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2 repliesI now want to turn to the topic of White Balance. White Balance is explained on page 62 of the book. When I'm finished posting this, I am going to post two examples below of differing color temperatures: One "cool" image and and "warm." It's pretty straightforward.
The terms cool and warm don't refer to the actual temperatures, but instead to the color temperature of the light. A white balance adjustment would be the process of "correcting" the warmth or coolness of the light and consequent colors. This business of "correcting" the color temperature is all subjective, of course.
Over the next few days, let's say by Thursday, lets post some good examples of "warm" and "cool" images. If you only have a good example of one, just post one. If you feel you have neither, don't worry about it. Just sit back and learn.
And with the white balance I have my camera set on Auto white balance is this where it should be or should I change that for the conditions(direct sunlight,cloudy,shade) and I'm also shooting in Raw. When you say making a White Balance adjustment in your examples are you talking about with the camera settings or when editing.
I never have preset settings for anything. 1/125 doesn't mean in particular so that person told you wrong. It might be good for some situations and not good for others. It's too arbitrary.
Auto WB is fine but just for kicks, you should experiment with different WB settings as you are learning, just so you know and see the difference. If you shoot in RAW, you really don't have to worry about the WB setting on your camera because you set the WB when you process the image in the RAW converter.