My WHITE BALANCE PHOTOGRAPHY Technique || The Landscape Photography Journals E5 

Dave Morrow I never understood why to use WB in Raw, now I am very pleasantly surprised. Thanks Dave!!! :-))) I am going to Norway in two days and this will SO MUCH help me during midnight sun each day. Check my Instagram in two weeks to see the results ;-) where.is.tony

Thanks Jack. That means a lot. Do me a favor and share it with your photographer friends if you get a chance:) PS: Is there anything specific you want to learn about? I have an on going list for video ideas. Enjoy the day!

Totally Agree!

Thanks Juan. Glad you liked it! I may like the adventure more than the photos;)

You're welcome!

Thanks:)

You're welcome buddy.

MARVIN! Good to hear from you. I had a really good time with you on that tour. Hope everything is going well for you & thanks for the kind words.

That's awesome Thad. Thanks for letting me know!

Thanks!

Thanks for watching!

Must have been killer out here in the 60s! Glad you liked the video & the views. Thanks brother.

@@DaveMorrow Dave, it was definitely not as crowded or bureaucratic. No trailhead parking permits or campsite reservations. The Smith Tower was still the Seattle skyline icon (until the Space Needle was completed). Starbucks was a single shop at Pike Place Market, REI was a small shop on the second floor at 1313 Pike St, down the hall from the Seattle Mountaineer’s club room, and smelled of hemp, wool, and leather, not nylon and polypropylene. Jim Whittaker had not yet summited Everest and become a celebrity, he was my ski instructor at the Mountaineers Snoqualmie Lodge and occasionally climb leader (we laughed our way up mountains with Jim). Larry Penburthy had just started MSR. Out of the trunk of his car at the trailhead he handed out various prototypes to test. We climbed Mt Rainer peeing on litmus paper and recording our urine pH. Larry had a theory about altitude sickness and electrolyte balance. While most of the party remained camped in snow caves at 12,000 ft three of us went to the summit and spent a night bivouacked in an ice cave inside the crater rim. Not the most comfortable night, but great view from the front porch the next morning. I still have my original issue MSR ice axe with its unceremonious international orange spray paint finish. I still have the imported wood-shafted ice ax it replaced too, much more stylish.

That's great! Glad to hear it:) Some people lead negative lives...

Thanks Chuck. Good to have you here man. Really glad you enjoyed my vids. There are more here, along with written articles: www.davemorrowphotography.com/2013/01/tutorials-photography-post-processing.html Enjoy, Dave

Thanks buddy

You're welcome, Mike.

Thanks 👍

Awesome! Thank you!

Thanks Savvas. New video out today

Dave Morrow I am already watching again your videos and writing down some tips!! Thank my man again and I am looking forward for your new video!

You're welcome

Thanks James. There is nothing wrong with bracketing, but with newer cameras / sensors, it's often overlapping data. 90% of the time a single correctly exposed images captures it all. But there are those times when multiple exposures are required. It's all about knowing when you need it:) DATA COLLECTION! Collecting light energy, turning it into electric signal, and playing with it on your computer. Sounds fun to me! I'll have a new video out on Tuesday, which covers some basics of bracketing techniques.

Dave Morrow looking forward to your next instalment. Cheers Dave. Regards James.

You're welcome.

I really appreciate that! You're most welcome:) Enjoy the day Gino.

Thanks!

I agree with you Peter:). You're welcome.

Hi Sajjad. Thanks. That's a great to hear. I try to work on that in the videos. Camera settings are a huge decision tree, depending on scene, light, and landsacpe. I wrote a long step by step article on the topic, which covers EVERYTHING. www.davemorrowphotography.com/exposure-triangle In the future I'll do more videos on specific settings for specific shooting situations. Thanks for the input. It helps alot:) Dave

That's great. You may enjoy this page, it contains all my free learning material: www.davemorrowphotography.com/2013/01/tutorials-photography-post-processing.html

Hi James, You're most welcome. It's a fun project. Once you get the LV technique down you'll save alot of time and create overall better images. Let me know what you find:) Thanks for comment.

Hi Ryan. Give this article a read. it will help you to understand manual vs ap: www.davemorrowphotography.com/exposure-triangle The best way to get off the beaten path, is to load your backpack with a week of food and start hiking. You're guaranteed to find good stuff, planning or not. I use www.caltopo.com & google earth to plan all my trips, for route only, sometimes on trail, sometimes off. When you get a day or two into the wilderness, the photos come on their own. No need to plan them:) That's about all I use anymore. I'll add this topic to my list of future videos:)

You're welcome, Don. Have fun!

haha. Love to hear that. Really glad you enjoy the stuff:)

Dave Morrow sure man. Great work both outdoors and photography. Would be fun meeting you sometime on the WA trails.

For sure. It just lets more light into live view. That technique is covered a few videos later in the series.

You're welcome Frank. I have an offer for you. I'm beta testing my brand new landscape photo editing course, which includes the topics you stated. Would you be interested in testing it out for free? I'm just looking for feedback on the course, before launch. If you're interested shoot me an email, dave@davemorrowphotography.com

Anytime! Glad it helped:)

Glad to hear it. You're welcome.

You're welcome! Glad to hear it:)

Thanks Chris. NIce, Adams is a beast! Secluded too. It's a great place, agreed:)

Hi Paul. It will have a slight effect. So long as white balance is close, no problem though. That's why histograms are key to utilize, they don't care about screen glare.

Thanks. Profile set to neutral or whatever the flattest profile is. This will show a histogram closest to RAW.

Thanks Kyle. Yessir. For sure. Usually the min f-stop possible to focus, 2.8 to 3.5 ish, then adjust to f/8 or f/11 for the shot.

Hi Basak, there is as of today -- > ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vQDhOWcy6f0.html

Hey Thanks Gireesh. They are the exact same shooting techniques as in this video. No difference. Read this technical article it will help! www.davemorrowphotography.com/exposure-triangle

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The correct kelvin is all about getting the exposure correct. The luminosity histogram is only in Photoshop, camera is RGB.

Great question. You just have to drop the exposure by a half stop or so and exposure to the right for the brightest color channel. You can see an example in the link below, if you watch that specific shooting example ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BtExFWacuZ4.htmlm27s Eventually you'll start to know which color will blow out first and back off your exposure slightly to compensate. Red, Green & Yellow blow out really quickly. Blue hardly ever. Glad you liked it! Let me know if that makes sense to you:)

Really good question! The camera's RGB histogram reads a jpg rendering of the RAW file and displays it in image review. The live view histogram is still an RGB histogram. It just doesn't show individual color channels such as image review. It is an 8-bit histogram just like the image review version. More details on bit-depth & color here--> www.davemorrowphotography.com/camera-sensor-size-guide#Bit_Depth_Color_Depth_ImageQuality Once you load a picture into Lightroom or Adobe Camera RAW you'll notice that it doesn't match the one of the back of the camera perfectly. RAW editing programs read and render the raw file histogram. You're camera histogram will show the image clipping in the darks and shadows before they actually do. This is a nice failsafe:) I'd recommend some test shots, compare back of camera to what comes out in raw editing programs when exposed to the right.

Yup. Go into the woods, shoot directly into the sunlight in a high dynamic range scene, exposing only for the highlight. Take a shot at 64 and 100. Then go back home and see which file you like working with more. I find that ISO100 is much more malleable in post, especially for high dynamic range scenes. It's also 2/3 stop quicker in exposure, with no noticeable difference in noise profile. So, long answer short, I prefer 100 over 64 through extensive testing in different scenarios.

Hi Robert, Thanks. 1) Not really. Your color effects exposure, although you can adjust raw color, the right color is needed for the correct exposure. 2) Depends what kind of gear you need. Most of my trips are 3-7 nights out, living out of a backpack. So if you just want to do a day hike, you probably won't need the really $$$ gear and can save some money. Here is a guide that I wrote on the topic: www.davemorrowphotography.com/Backpacking-for-Photographers-Guide , reference the Layering Section.

James! Good to hear from you. Well, I'm always right here, you guys know where to find me for lots of walking:)

I just get used to doing it with numb hands and feet. Spend alot of time in the cold and it'll just become part of you:)

yeah well I sat in a coffee shop sucking my fingers and found that helped ... somehow I hit the white balance and changed it to tungsten and well in ice and snow it was "interesting" " ....:)

2 - 3 weeks:)

@@DaveMorrow awesome, looking forward to it! Happy New Year!

White balance isn't about color in RAW. It's about finding the white point to optimize exposure & maximize the full well capacity of each pixel.

Hi Mike, I'm not sure. Google probably knows:)

Nice! Thanks. The picture profile affects the histogram shown on your camera (jpeg rendering of RAW FILE), but not the RAW file. So, put the camera profile on FLAT or NEUTRAL or whatever the least contrast profile is. That will match it as close as possible to the raw file.

Thank you! Just one more question...do you ever use the AE Lock on your camera?

@@mhaney1111 you're welcome. No I don't - watch all these you'll learn the complete technique: ru-vid.com/group/PL5MgfX7Ym7At_Q0eWRIzjI7utn3mjQsxF

You're welcome. I have no clue. I never shoot in JPEG.

@@DaveMorrow I didn't explain that well. I meant for raw shooting. I wondered if the jpeg picture setting can influence the histogram that you see on the screen..hence influence the exposure for raw.

Absolutely. You want it on Adobe RGB & Flat or Neutral Profile.

Good question. no I don't. It doesn't make a difference in the image quality. Maybe if you're taking 10 minute exposures in mid day light it would. Test both scenarios on your camera and let me know what you think:)