Professional Close To Bethlhem New Hampshire
Like most New hampshire photographers, I like to play around and constantly explore Photoshop. Each time you use it, it seems like you discover some new trick or wonderful way of accomplishing something quicker than before. But I’m a businessman too, so i need to be careful about how much time I’m spending in front of the computer. The more time I spend there, the less I have for taking photos and marketing my services, and that’s where I make money. So I’ve always adopted the philosophy of ‘get it right in the camera’ even before Photoshop was born. With that in mind, let’s see how we can get beautiful files that require either none or very little manipulation after the shoot. I’m going to use a recent shoot I did at the beach in New Hampshire as a good example of why you should shoot a custom white balance versus shooting on ‘auto’. I started this shoot with about 45 minutes to go until sunset. The light, and the color temperature of that light, changed rapidly during that time.
I shot the same model against green grass, blue water, and white sand. Oh, she also changed her clothes in the middle of it. By taking about 30 seconds every 15 minutes to shoot a new white balance, I was able to get consistent color and pleasing skin tones. And if I wanted to make a color correction, I possibly could do it globally with all the files, since the color is consistent from file to file. If I shot on auto, my camera would be trying to make sense of the wide variety of conditions and colors presented before it, along with even though they may be ‘acceptable’, they will vary widely. That means you need to correct each file individually, not a fun way to spend the night. I’d rather be watching Mission Impossible You would even be better off to ‘guess’ the color temperature and lock it in your camera, even if it’s not all that close, since you could once again ‘globally’ effect the change. These changes are more easily accomplished in some of the RAW converter software packages but I don’t want to bring up the old “Raw vs. Jpg” debate in this article, it’s been done to death and you should have your mind made up on that subject by now. Contact a New Hampshire photographer for your wedding needs. Diane Brown Photography in Littleton New Hampshire for wedding photography.
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Diane Brown Photography is a professional portrait photographer based in Littleton New Hampshire
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