What I like about your videos is (apart from the excellent advice) is that you speak really fast & consequently pack in loads of information. Many others videos I've seen cause me to continuously skip forward while thinking: "For f**cks sake get on with it!". Keep it up, excellent stuff.
RAW is going to capture the "actual" colors, meaning the spectral information cast through the lens at a specific exposure level. The 'cloudy' setting actually is closer to the perceived light, as evidenced by the overall muted colors with the orange-yellow road post lower center as a sharp accent. As our eyes adapt unconsciously to a neutral sense, eyes and our mental processing behave differently from a straight color adjustment like cameras can make, and tricky scenes like this demand careful tweaking to end up with the most satisfying combination of technical accuracy, and subjective feel for the 'rightness' of the scene. Heavy-handed manipulation can lose detail, and appear as if a strong filter was applied. The snow-sunrise is tricky, and may be closer to a scene lit by two sources - the deep orange sun itself, and the vast sky area above and behind the camera, likely a cool blue; trying to fix a single color balance is going to fail as the other light source will then go off the scale. He does pretty well by treating the overall area as a shaded/blue balance, then the sun itself becomes a sort of artificial light source unto itself.
Interesting that my Canon 5D manual also suggests using an 18% gray card to set white balance. I've always use one of those to set exposure in challenging situations.
OK You get a PLUS 100% on this Video Because I had to pause and replay (at section 9:50), did he just say he shot this Barn in my area?... Rock On for visiting Goshen Indiana!!!! I currently live in South Bend, IN but Wow Goshen is like right up the road from Elkhart, IN which is where I work...Rock On!!!
I have been struggling with learning how to do portrait fill flash outside in the cold Wisconsin winters. It looks like what is happening is that I am getting a blue hue from the ambient light along with yellow/green hue from the flash fill. The result is that my subjects look like multicolored zombies. How can you set a natural looking white balance when you have to deal with two different color temperatures lighting a face.
I did decades of photography before digital came along, so my habit patterns are set in stone to get the exposure and color balance right in camera. However, I shoot everything in raw because having all the information makes a better print with more detail and fine gradations in tone. Why throw away detail to start with by shooting jpg? That makes no sense to me.
Question... will adding a gray card into a captured scene using Kodak ektar or porta enable you to get accurate color after it's developed and scanned? Thanks
hi. so once again question about RAW. does it matter AT ALL to set the white ballance right when shooting RAW? will my pictures have better collors ultimately if I set correct white ballance when shooting? or I can fix everything in PP? thx
What about WB when you're shooting a landscape? How can u take pictures to represent the REAL colors you see them with your eyes? How can i replicate that colors on the camera? Thank u in advance.
"if you shoot b&w you don't have to worry about color temp." are yo sure?. Did ever notice that warm light is softer and blue light is sharper which b&w emulsion/sensor will absolutely notice! Also exposure is not exactly the same.
@perropatata Custom WB is great to give an accurate representation of the original scene... I rarely look for a 100% representation of reality :) I use WB as another creative tool...
@perropatata If you shot raw the best thing to do is leave the WB in auto, since you will need to do some post anyway... I would never let my camer choose the WB anyway... it is so important for the feeling of a photo... I want to tweak it myself!
