In this particular case, one way to solve this problem is to put a Yellow? Gel over the flash? Since there is only one color to balance, this being blue. Correct?
Now have we come to a consensus about what to do if there are two or three different color casts? Some have said color correct with a brush in Lightroom. But what if you shoot fifty shots like that at a wedding? Lots of work. I need to read carefully over the responses. Then I will try to answer my own question.
This is exactly what I told my friend. Lots of opinions. He was surprised that there was more than one answer to the question. We deduced that it was because he was an engineer. 2+2 always equals 4. No other solution. This is good stuff.
Yeah so I know how it works with film.
With digital do you really need to balance the light if you are shooting RAW because you can adjust in post processing in Lightroom.
What would happen if you didn't use the gels?
I saw a post on this not long ago but I can't find it.
Today I was shooting with a friend and we noticed the flash left a blue cast. The cloudy ambient light delivered better skin tones.
He wanted to break out the gels.
How do you handle mixed lighting with raw since you adjust color in pp.
And daylight cloudy should be blue also. What's up with that?
When do you need to use gels?
In my opinion, why start with a less powerful program and have to start all over again later. Photoshop is the gold standard. Yes it can be intimidating, but it's well worth the effort to learn. Get get two books. Adobe Photoshop classroom in a book. And Scott Kelby's adobe Photoshop CC for photographers. You'll be up and going in no time. You can learn the basics with just a few hours a day and be up and running in the week.
Don't do Photoshop elements because everything is in a different place and then when you go to Photoshop CC you'll be frustrated. Just bite the bullet and get the $9.99 Adobe cloud subscription and go for it and don't look back. As they said in my favorite movie Avatar, "Sometimes life Doylestown to one in sane move".
Great shot. Do you have any without the gazebo?
You won't keep it for life. It will become obsolete and the shutter will wear out. Eventually you will have to buy a new one.
If you have the space on your card and on your hard drive, shoot RAW. Then lock yourself in a room and learn Lightroom. You will have fun developing your own shots.
I shot jpgs until 2011, when I got a new computer and larger cards. That's the only thing that held me back.
Hello, I'm Lee. I've been lurking here and recently posted about focus issues and a counter on my camera that was giving me grief.
I've been a pro since about 2000. Went digital in 2001. Before that I shot wedding in my spare time with film of course and picked up my first camera in 1986, when my first Son was born.
I still find that I have a lot to learn. THings keep changin constantly and forums like these are priceless.
Well, gotta go. i have an engagement session.
Nice to meet everyone
Wow that is one used camera! OK my understanding of digital files it that there is no 100% accurate way of predicting the number of file that can fit on a card because some file very in size depending on the subject matter. If a file is colorful with a wide range of tones the file will be a little larger.
It occurred to me last night that something may have chabged in the file numbering system which is programmable. I'm going to look at that as a posssible cause.
Thanks for dusting that mark II off and helping out. Your post was one of the most helpful.
Why is it I always seem to be flying by the seat of my pants? LOL
Update:
I went to page 70 in the manual and chose one shot . I found that if I used AI servo or AI focus that the camera would refocus every time I went to recompose. But a long as it's on one shot I can focus and recompose with no refocus.
So thanks that was very frustrating. Pretty basic now that I see what I was doing wrong. I gues that's what the forum is for.
Update.
My camera said 32 shots left so I took all 32 shots and when I tried to view them I got a message on the screen that said card 1 continuous file number finished. Restart on 0000? I chose ok and I now have 376 shots on the card. So it miraculously fixed itself.
That is the first time that has ever happened to me. That was rather nerve racking, especially since I had a wedding today. Luckily I had a 5d Mark III, as well. A 32 Gig card shoots over 1000 RAW files in the mark III. I had two 32 gig cards. Plus I had 4 4gig cards for the 1D mark II. Plenty of shots for the small wedding. I shot maybe 800-1000 total between the two cameras.