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Do you like The Red Bull Hangar,
but hate it's stupid color changing lights?
Well just about everyone does. But Now, you can control it!
There may be a few ways in doing this, such as just removing the color or white balancing,
but I've found a way that's much simpler and doesn't affect the image's exposure or color toning!
Here's how to do it.
Step 1: Position your shot at RBH, get your exposure and everything set,
and simply take 3 shots without changing anything. One of the blue lights, one of the red, and one of the green. Like so,
Step 2: Open one of them in Photoshop/Paint.net/GIMP. Then add the other 2 as seperate layers over top, like here.
Doesn't matter which order they're in.
Step 3: Change the top 2 layers to Lighten or Darken.
Lighten will turn the Lights to White, while Darken will turn them off.
Step 4: Edit! There you go, perfectly white/off lights at RBH with almost no distortion to the image itself.
But is white a little too boring? What about Yellow? Or Magenta, or Cyan?
Well now you can do that too! Just mess around with adding layers over top of each other with the Lighten/Darken modes,
you can just about control the lighting to anyway you'd like!
But, You want to shoot inside? Still no problem! But do you have a slight purple tint to your shot?
Repeat 1 and 2, and here's where it gets tricky for Step 3.
to correct that, You must over saturate the green level by 25,
or whatever removes the purple tint, and it'll look a lot better, like this.
To Darken though, is even more odd! You don't even need a green shot!
Simply just have a red and blue, and set one to Darken and voila! Lights off!
Here's a few more examples of White Lights and Lights off, for a better comparison.
Be Sure to post your results and shots too!
but hate it's stupid color changing lights?
Well just about everyone does. But Now, you can control it!
There may be a few ways in doing this, such as just removing the color or white balancing,
but I've found a way that's much simpler and doesn't affect the image's exposure or color toning!
Here's how to do it.
Step 1: Position your shot at RBH, get your exposure and everything set,
and simply take 3 shots without changing anything. One of the blue lights, one of the red, and one of the green. Like so,
Step 2: Open one of them in Photoshop/Paint.net/GIMP. Then add the other 2 as seperate layers over top, like here.
Doesn't matter which order they're in.
Step 3: Change the top 2 layers to Lighten or Darken.
Lighten will turn the Lights to White, while Darken will turn them off.
Step 4: Edit! There you go, perfectly white/off lights at RBH with almost no distortion to the image itself.
But is white a little too boring? What about Yellow? Or Magenta, or Cyan?
Well now you can do that too! Just mess around with adding layers over top of each other with the Lighten/Darken modes,
you can just about control the lighting to anyway you'd like!
But, You want to shoot inside? Still no problem! But do you have a slight purple tint to your shot?
Repeat 1 and 2, and here's where it gets tricky for Step 3.
to correct that, You must over saturate the green level by 25,
or whatever removes the purple tint, and it'll look a lot better, like this.
To Darken though, is even more odd! You don't even need a green shot!
Simply just have a red and blue, and set one to Darken and voila! Lights off!
Here's a few more examples of White Lights and Lights off, for a better comparison.
Be Sure to post your results and shots too!
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