The Photography Thread
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I didn't have my tripod, so I had to use the railing to stabilize a 3 second shutter. People touching etc etc. Whatevs.
It is a nice car, but check out how obvious the clear film is on the rockers of this car. I just wanted to peel it off. You can get a cleaner film on cars that cost a tenth as much as the Aston Martin.
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So on my last shoot I noticed that the Z was a bit off color due to the lighting from the street lamps. So I've decided to learn how to use the custom white balance on my camera. For those of you who dont know how to use it, basically you take a picture under the same lighting you are going to be shooting, filling the frame with a white piece of paper (an 18% gray card works better) I then go into my camera settings choose the custom WB option, then select the image of the piece of paper and it sets a new WB, the results are amazing, here I took a tripod and took a before and after shot to show the difference, no post processing was done to the colors. The right side is before the left side is after
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So last night at about 11pm my friend and I decided to go to the beach, on the way we took some photos, we ended up getting home at 4am 
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So on my last shoot I noticed that the Z was a bit off color due to the lighting from the street lamps. So I've decided to learn how to use the custom white balance on my camera. For those of you who dont know how to use it, basically you take a picture under the same lighting you are going to be shooting, filling the frame with a white piece of paper (an 18% gray card works better) I then go into my camera settings choose the custom WB option, then select the image of the piece of paper and it sets a new WB, the results are amazing, here I took a tripod and took a before and after shot to show the difference, no post processing was done to the colors. The right side is before the left side is after
Nice tip.
Note that if you shoot RAW, you can do this in post-production. I apply a custom white balance by clicking on an area of the photograph that I know is white (or which I wish to be treated as white).
I've had some criticism on other sites claiming that my WB is off, and is "distracting". I question whether the person was there and knows what they're talking about. Certainly, in the instance I'm thinking of, the subject was lit very dimly, and I wanted that retained. Additionally, it was fairly obvious that the WB was correct since the highlights from the backlighting were at the correct colour.
Personally, I think that if you shoot a car under sodium lighting, it's a creative decision to "correct" the WB to make whites white, or whether to retain the orange colouring.
I actually think that your half/half image is quite striking!!
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I haven't messed with raw much but I suppose thats next in the process.
What do you do if there is nothing white in your image? Can you still set WB on the raw image in post production?
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What do you do if there is nothing white in your image? Can you still set WB on the raw image in post production?
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I haven't messed with raw much but I suppose thats next in the process.
What do you do if there is nothing white in your image? Can you still set WB on the raw image in post production?
Once you start shooting raw you most likely won't shoot in jpg much since you'll see a huge difference in image quality, especially the colors. Here's a screen shot in Photoshop to give you an idea how easy it is to make adjustments:
On the right side you will see "Temperature" - this is how you adjust the white balance. Below it, well, it's self-explanatory. One thing I like shooting in RAW and using Photoshop is that all the adjustments that I would normally make are all in one section; when making adjustments in jpg, I'd have to go through 3-4 different menus to fix the contrast, colors, exposure, etc.
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hmmm that looks like the same thing I have in adobe lightroom, I just downloaded it and I like it so far, have you tried it?
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I haven't messed with raw much but I suppose thats next in the process.
What do you do if there is nothing white in your image? Can you still set WB on the raw image in post production?
My RAW conversion software has all the preset WBs from the camera encoded, so you can reverse-engineer a preset WB. You can also adjust the colour temperature on a slider. Using the dropper on a white area just shortcuts the process.
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It really does work
, just make sure they're the semi-transparent ones though.
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a few quick ones from this weekend, I was on a boat and had the opportunity to take some shots so I did. I'll be doing a full shoot with her coming up soon.
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I'd definitely recommend some fill flash or a reflector in the first 2. Plus it will help your future shots with her. Very pretty model too BTW.
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Second one is awesome
Forget about the other wallpapers. 1600x1200 of that!
hopefully it looks allright. editing 1600x1200 on a 1280x1024 is kinda hard, plus the shot was out of focus to begin with.
http://www.ktait.net/other/backgroundplmatt.jpg
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Thanks DM, I like your shot too, but the people look a seem a bit blurry compared to others, or was that intentional?
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It was intentional... I wanted it to have a short DoP to isolate the guy on the bike, but my camera (and most P&S) have HUGE DoP, so I tried to mimic it with the blur tool.
That last shot is interesting, Derrict...
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Nice portraits, skylineGTR_guy.
Cool avatar, ah. 👍
Here's an old shot, but I gave it another go at post-processing:
did you try blurring that yourself? regardless, it's one of the best photos i've seen posted.
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