PhotoWalk Pro in Orlando

I will be taking part in the Orlando Photowalk, on monday april 1st downtown Orlando. It is organised by Jeff a seasoned photo-walker. Since some time I follow his blog and did envy the participants of these events. I’ll be in… so check my images and read his blog on it….
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The Color Balance

THE COLOR BALANCE ALSO CALLED THE WHITE BALANCE IS A TECHNIQUE THAT WILL ENSURE A PHOTOGRAPHED OBJECT TO BE CAPTURED WITH HIS REAL COLORS, ENSURING AN OPTIMAL RENDERING AT THE MOMENT OF DISPLAY ON THE COMPUTER MONITOR OR ON THE FINAL PRINT. YOUR CAMERA HAS SETTING OF EXPOSURE AND COLOR BALANCE THAT CAN BE SET [...]

Why do I get only three peaks on my histogram?

One regular question about the color balance coach target is: why do I get only trree peaks on my histogram?
as you can see on the left side of the hand-drawn graphics that the target is used facing the camera instead of facing the light. When you do so the difference of the light from [...]

FAQ PhotoMasterTarget/ColorBalanceCoach: When I take the picture of the grey surface, should I leave my WB settings to AWB to take the picture for use in setting custom WB ?

For Canon, Nikon and other brands, it does not make any difference the mode that you are in when you take the image you will use for setting the white balance. As a second step the camera will white balance the surface or the image that you have chosen to perform the custon WB.

The FAQ [...]

The ColorBalanceCoach, performs in extreme conditions

In a snow storm there is a natural tendency to set everything on auto and rely on the work of the camera, As you can see in the first image the density and Color balance of the image is off. The image is too dark and reddish due to the cloudy conditions and the [...]

Official launch ColorBalanceCoach

(TEXTE FRANCAIS À LA SUITE DU TEXTE ANGLAIS)

Montreal Photographer Turns Inventor
Making Digital Photography Color-Perfect at the First ShotMontreal, Wednesday, September 27, 2006- This week Montreal Photographer Jean-François O’Kane will introduce in a world premiere, a new colour balancing system for digital photography that he invented and perfected himself at the Photokina international fair in Cologne, [...]

The Color Balance Coach target instructions

Easy to follow video instruction have just been published on the ColorBalanceCoach web site click here to watch. Do not hesitate to contact Customer service for any info. cbc@colorbalancecoach.com
Jean-Francois O’Kane
The Color Balance Coach

The Studio Coach patents the Color Balance Coach target

The ColorBalanceCoach disc looks like a photographic reflector and like it, it can be collapsed to use only a fraction of the space, this allowed us to include on the disc the largest grey card on the market, that can still fit in your photo bag. The ColorBalanceCoach is made of 4 distict regions called [...]

Color Balancing or color correcting

Would you rather Color Balance once at picture taking time or color correct all night after a shoot?
Or: Who painted my wall yellow?
The digital era brought with him a whole lot of fun things, unlimited shootings, everlasting roll of film and perfect auto modes. Oups! I’m starting to talk like a salesman. The auto-everything camera [...]