And we have reached lucky theme number “Thirteen”
Month: March 2009
March 29th, Lucky Sixes (Twelve)
If you have two lucky sixes, what do you have???
Unlike Dry Land, Perfect Auto White Balance is a myth!!!
Ok if you not a fan of bad Water movies you probably don’t get the whole title. 😛 ON the plus side I figured as much so todays little topic is Auto White Balance, its on most camera’s and most of us use it… Yet is it really doing all it should? is it smarter than doing a traditional white balance reading? Well lets see shall we?
Below is our reference photograph, it was taken with tungsten lighting, two 90 watt lightbulbs at 45 degree angles to each other, the camera is set on a locked tripod, the exposure is the same for all photographs, this shot was RAW, and the white balance was determined using the WhiBal card on the scarf, please pay close attention to what happens when we start to use the other white balance options… Please note that the first photograph is the only one that used software for color balance, the rest is all in camera settings.
As you can see the above photographs are close, but there are differences which may or may not hinder an image, alot of how close you need to be is in what you plan on doing with the shots. If you are anal close doesn’t cut it, if you are just doing some things for fun and yourself, close works.
Now lets see what happens when we let the camera do all the work for us…
Hmmm, seems like the camera may not be making the best choices for us in a “normal” indoor lighting situation, now if you added in mixed lighting….
Now of course outdoors AWB is different, and one day soon I will post on that as well, hopefully this will get you thinking a bit more about how and what your camera can do, and how it can be improved…
March 23 – March 29th Theme!!!
This weeks theme is… “Twelve”
March 22nd, The Eleventh Hour… (Eleven)
Under the gun so to speak…
March 16th – March 22nd Theme!!!
And for this week the theme is “11”. And since its St. Patrick’s day this week maybe we do a little green sub theme.
March 15th, Ten Little Indians kinda in a row… (Ten)
They may not look like they are there but trust me there are ten of these little twits…
March 9th – March 15th Theme…
Welcome to week number…. “Ten”
March 8th, Chance (Nine)
This is Chance, Chance is nine years old… He also has the flu, which should explain the happy expression…
March 2nd – March 8th Theme!!!
Well another week and another theme…. This weeks theme is of course “Nine”
March 1st, Eight Studies of Vega (Eight)
Well since Street Fighter IV was released last week, I felt it was important to do a nice tribute to the beautiful Spaniard. If you have no clue who this is I would suggest a nice google search…
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