> > Hi Diana, > > I have a Sony Cyber Shoot 3,2 mill. pixels camera. > > In stability it works very well. I have had it for 5 years > soon, and i > > have used it frequently. It takes good closeup pictures. > > But it has a problem with the blue colours. It does not capture the > > right blue tones. > > That has been one of the problems with mine! > > Someone just pointed out to me that my camera might have a > "light balance setting" and it does!! I can adjust for sun, > clouds, indoor lighting, etc. I am going to try that first > before I spend more money on a new camera. But if it doesn't > work (or when this camera wears out) I think I will buy an > Olympus next :~>
A few more things to consider with digital photography. You absolutely need to have good color management on your computer if you are going to get accurate color in your output. At the least, get good color calibration software and hardware and use it regularly. The idea is that what you see on the screen is then an accurate representation of what your output will be. With that, you can adjust to get color to match the original. If you are using Photoshop, work in Adobe RGB if your camera can take pictures in it. (If it can't look for one that can.) Even better is Adobe RGB and 16 bit color. This gives you a lot more latitude before you start getting banding and posterization. For use on the web, after you get done color correcting and editing, convert the image to sRGB. Once it's converted, use the Save for Web function. Watch the settings here, too. This will give you the best chance of having people on the web get an accurate idea of the colors. To make things a little easier, shoot a picture of something that is stark white or even better one of the black, gray, white cards you can get from a good photo store under the same lighting you're going to use for the pictures of the fabric. If possible, set everything up, lay the card on the fabric, shoot the picture of the card, remove the card and shoot the fabric, costume, etc. Then color correct the first frame so you have the white perfectly white, the black perfectly black and the gray as neutral gray. Then apply the same color correction settings to each of your other images and they'll be corrected for the lighting. A good book on color management and photo correcting/editing will give you much more detail on how all of this works. Dan (sometimes costumer, sometimes photographer) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
