![]() ![]() Plus you need to see if your measurements in steps 2 and 3 match what you’d like to see in your mind. This is part of constantly training your mind to see light and think in f/stops and getting used to your lights. You have to start with a guess even if it’s a completely random guess. Of course your flashes are set on manual, so you guess on their output and set them accordingly. You have to first make a mental guess as to your exposure, for your three settings on your camera ( f/stop, shutter, and iso). If I adhere to these 3 steps, I save myself work later. ![]() My 3 Steps to Perfect Exposure & Colorĭon’t be a step skipper! If I skip any steps, it means I have to adjust something later. Imagine how fast you can be on the computer when your images are already done! But instead, the ability to adjust images digitally has made seasoned photographers lazy and has crippled new photographers with bad techniques.Īs a photographer in the Bry Cox Club, I hope you join my school of thought, that it’s much better to take a second or two during the shoot to make sure your exposure and lights are measured and set exactly, than to spend hours later adjusting large groups of images. It’s good enough to sell, good enough to print, and better than most “finished” work out there, and all done in camera. Compared to the first image, it is better. With some very fast and very slight work, it is done. This is straight from the camera, and it looks great! There is expression, contrast, great lighting, and everything technical has been nailed.īelow is the finished image. ( See more about these images here.) This first image has no digital enhancements, no retouching, no lightening, no darkening, no color correction, no cropping. Impossible to get great images straight out of the camera? Here is a sample image created in just a few minutes in front of a crowd while teaching in Texas. Then when I work in Photoshop, it’s for fun and an investment into my order, rather than corrective. Then do everything I can in Lightroom so that I don’t have to do anything in Photoshop. ![]() My philosophy is to do everything I can in-camera, so I don’t have to do anything in Lightroom. My goal is to provide the highest quality photograph by working quickly. You can match color temperature to the light source as shown in the following table, or choose options that differ sharply from the color of the light source to make pictures “warmer” or “colder”.This video will explain how to get both your exposure and white balance perfect in camera. Light sources with a color temperature close to that of direct sunlight appear white light sources with a lower color temperature have a yellow or red cast, while those with a higher color temperature are tinged with blue. If “OVER” is displayed, lower exposure compensation and try again.Ĭolor temperature is an objective measure of the color of a light source, expressed in Kelvin (K).If “UNDER” is displayed, raise exposure compensation and try again.If “COMPLETED!” is displayed, press to set white balance to the measured value.White balance measurement options will be displayed frame a white object so that it fills the display and press the shutter button all the way down to measure white balance (to select the most recent custom value and exit without measuring white balance, press, or press to select the most recent value and display the fine-tuning dialog). Play pictures back after shooting to check colors.Ĭhoose to adjust white balance for unusual lighting conditions. ![]()
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