What white balance do you have your camera set to? In many ways it
doesn't matter which one you choose as long as you choose a specific one
and *NOT* auto white balance.
Auto white balance in the camera will change the white balance for every
image.
If you choose a specific white balance, even if it's the wrong one, all
of the images will be the same. You get the first one color corrected
and all the rest can be synchronized to it.
... until you go into another room or go outdoors.
But still, you color correct the first one in the group & synchronize
all the rest from that group to the first one.
One thing is to carry a gray-card. Get yourself one of these:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/101853-REG/Delta_22030_Gray_Card_8x10_1.html
(The URL probably doesn't wrap correctly. I'm still searching for where
to turn flowed text on.)
Anyway, cut it into quarters & carry one-quarter in your pocket. Let one
of the kids hold it up for you in your first shot for the group. When it
wears out, use another quarter ... until all of them are worn out.
You can use the white-balance eye-dropper tool to color correct the
photo that has the gray card in it & then synchronize the rest of the
images taken in the same light to that first one.
On 4/25/2014 6:19 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
I don’t understand what it is. I don’t understand how it works. In
some cases I don’t know how to get the results I want.
This is an album of images taken mostly in a classroom, the same
classroom, the same day, over a period of about an hour and a half.
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/eeweir/13974421313/in/set-72157644174507442/>
As you can see, the coloring differs widely across the images. I
tried to get them to come out the same without success.
Since posting these I’ve gone back to the images in LR and changed
the WB setting to auto and increased the exposure on a couple
slightly. That gives me the best most consistent results. But “auto”
leaves me completely in the dark. What could *I* have done to achieve
the same results?
While I’m at it, could someone please explain to me what the options
under the fluorescent setting—D, N, W, L—are? I don’t see that it
makes any difference what setting I use. And I generally don’t like
the results I get with any fluorescent setting.
Thanks,
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA [email protected]
"Our world is a human world."
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