Kimi asked me to pinch hit for her.
Week three is concerned with white balance. The color of natural light depends on the time of day, cloud cover, and colored objects reflecting light on the subject. You will encounter tungsten and white fluorescent light indoors. Our brain tends to filter out color casts. But, digital sensors record the light as they "see" it. This lesson shows how to use camera controls to adjust how the image is recorded to avoid (not always perfectly) the color cast in the light.
I am starting us off with an example. This object, a creamy white ivory carving, was photographed on my dining room table. I used three camera settings as indicated.
The three on the top row were taken at night. The only light in the room was artificial light. The bottom row pictures were taken in the afternoon; this is a blend of natural light from the window (dull, overcast day, not a lot of light) and artificial light inside the room.
I have no idea why the camera controls were able to do a much better job on the blended light. I shot all of these as Jpeg. If you are shooting Raw, it doesn't matter; you might as well put it on Auto and leave it there.
Rusty
Week three is concerned with white balance. The color of natural light depends on the time of day, cloud cover, and colored objects reflecting light on the subject. You will encounter tungsten and white fluorescent light indoors. Our brain tends to filter out color casts. But, digital sensors record the light as they "see" it. This lesson shows how to use camera controls to adjust how the image is recorded to avoid (not always perfectly) the color cast in the light.
I am starting us off with an example. This object, a creamy white ivory carving, was photographed on my dining room table. I used three camera settings as indicated.
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The three on the top row were taken at night. The only light in the room was artificial light. The bottom row pictures were taken in the afternoon; this is a blend of natural light from the window (dull, overcast day, not a lot of light) and artificial light inside the room.
I have no idea why the camera controls were able to do a much better job on the blended light. I shot all of these as Jpeg. If you are shooting Raw, it doesn't matter; you might as well put it on Auto and leave it there.
Rusty
