Shooting indoors
Feb 16, 2012 13:47:38 #
Question. When I shoot indoors with incandescent or any other light my pictures come out yellowish, no matter what setting I use for indoor lighting. What could I be doing wrong?
Feb 16, 2012 14:11:28 #
Feb 16, 2012 17:23:14 #
Feb 16, 2012 17:44:45 #
jodellnow wrote:
Question. When I shoot indoors with incandescent or any other light my pictures come out yellowish, no matter what setting I use for indoor lighting. What could I be doing wrong?
Hi jodellnow: That sounds like a white balance issue. What make and model of camera are you using? Do you know how to set your white balance? You say that they come out yellowish under all different types lighting, incandescentlight tends to cause that cast. Where as fluorescent lighting should create a different tonal cast. Another possibility would be the mode setting. If your camera has that feature, an example would be the portrait setting would give a more reddish cast to the picture, where as a landscape setting tends have a more blue and green cast. Still another thought is do you have a colored filter on camera's lens and finally are you using flash on or off your camera? So many variables and not quite enough information... I hope this helps and doesn't frustrate you even more.
Feb 16, 2012 22:12:41 #
travlnman46 wrote:
quote=jodellnow Question. When I shoot indoors w... (show quote)
Ack! I have the same problem. And was just playing and yea...I see the blues and what you said.
Feb 16, 2012 22:58:50 #
Roger Hicks wrote:
Or 3200K.
Cheers,
R.
Cheers,
R.
A standard 100 watt incandescent residential bulb has a color temp of 2870K, 40 watt - 2500K. Professional photographic tungsten halogen lamps are 3200K.
The engineer in me just came out...sorry :oops:
Feb 17, 2012 08:36:32 #
jodellnow wrote:
Question. When I shoot indoors with incandescent or any other light my pictures come out yellowish, no matter what setting I use for indoor lighting. What could I be doing wrong?
Jodell,
Well for one thing get away from the preset WB indiograms, start to use the Kelvin scale, it is much more accurate, start around 3900 and work from there. I shoot in the tents for Fashion Week and only use the Kelvin scale. Lower the number cooler and blue tint, higher warmer and more red. After a while you will learn to set the number instinctively.
George
Feb 17, 2012 09:58:47 #
Feb 17, 2012 10:09:35 #
MtnMan wrote:
If your camera shoots in RAW you can do that and fix it afterwards.
MtnMan,
Why not try to get it right in the camera so you don't have as much post to do later. Time is money, as a working pro I try to get it perfect.
George
Feb 17, 2012 10:11:56 #
I don't disagree with that. It will make what you see on your LCD nicer.
My camera usually gets it right with WB on auto, though.
Just an additional suggestion if it works for the OP.
My camera usually gets it right with WB on auto, though.
Just an additional suggestion if it works for the OP.
George H wrote:
MtnMan,
Why not try to get it right in the camera so you don't have as much post to do later. Time is money, as a working pro I try to get it perfect.
George
MtnMan wrote:
If your camera shoots in RAW you can do that and fix it afterwards.
MtnMan,
Why not try to get it right in the camera so you don't have as much post to do later. Time is money, as a working pro I try to get it perfect.
George
Feb 17, 2012 10:15:16 #
MtnMan wrote:
I don't disagree with that. It will make what you ... (show quote)
Mtnman,
I am glad auto WB works on your camera for you, it never even comes close on mine so I just use the Kelvin scale.
George
Feb 18, 2012 00:47:09 #
All of the above advice is guess work. I suggest using an Expodisc to correct the white balance properly. As long as the lighting does not change, you can shoot confidently. If you walk over to a window, you will have a mix of incandescent and sunlight and your white will have changed.
Just because someone says such-and-such a light is x degrees K does not mean that your light is necessarily the same. Furthermore, most artificial lights change their colors as they age. And what happens if you have a mix of different lamps of different ages. Another bit of frequent advice is to put something white in the scene or shoot a test with a white in it and correct to it in post-processing. The problem is that not all whites are the same or even white. Ever go and buy "white" paint and find how how many there are?
Save yourself a lot of grief and work by using the Expodisc.
Good luck.
Just because someone says such-and-such a light is x degrees K does not mean that your light is necessarily the same. Furthermore, most artificial lights change their colors as they age. And what happens if you have a mix of different lamps of different ages. Another bit of frequent advice is to put something white in the scene or shoot a test with a white in it and correct to it in post-processing. The problem is that not all whites are the same or even white. Ever go and buy "white" paint and find how how many there are?
Save yourself a lot of grief and work by using the Expodisc.
Good luck.
Feb 18, 2012 00:53:14 #
abc1234 wrote:
All of the above advice is guess work. I suggest ... (show quote)
ABC,
I have one it is in my Pelican box, quess what I still set kelvin setting in the tents and I know I am doing it right, I don't need someone to tell me, they ask me.
George
Feb 22, 2012 16:47:17 #
Feb 22, 2012 18:33:40 #
George H wrote:
quote=jodellnow Question. When I shoot indoors w... (show quote)
How do you set the kelvin inside the camera. All i see is the idiot icons. I am using nikon 5100
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