Archive for November, 2007
New StudioCoach product
The videographers dream for white balances, the WhiteBeam now enters the market! It is an 8″ disk that is placed in front of the video camera lens in order to do the white balance in 5 seconds flat. This ensures continuity of light and easy matching of sequences. For more information… Now available on line, [...]
Read moreReturning From London, Vancouver, Victoria and Kelowna
The BoothPhoto Fall Tour has been a wonderful success. A two-day workshop in London, Ontario, where 45 photographers had the opportunity to have one day of conference style theory and one day applying what they had learned in six studio set up to facilitate learning. Our partners from Stan C. Reade spared no effort in [...]
Read moreWhat you recommend for desktop use….the 6×8 Wacom or smaller/larger?
The larger will be the tablet the more precise it tend to be, but one thing to consider is the total movement of the hand, I have on my desk a 6×8 and I like it very much, when I get on the 4×6… I feel a rest of not making such large movements with [...]
Read moreFAQ PhotoMasterTarget/ColorBalanceCoach: Do I use the exposure info (F-stop and shutter speed) taken from the grey surface or the exposure info taken from the whole disc including the white and black colors ?
The exposure info that you will have when aiming at the target whole or grey patch, will be used as a starting point to set the final exposure using the 4 patches and representation on the histogram. The 4 peaks pattern on the histogram ill be the confirmation of proper exposure. Once your histogram is [...]
Read moreFAQ 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 [...]
Read moreFAQ PhotoMasterTarget/ColorBalanceCoach: My camera has trouble focusing on the grey surface to get a picture for setting the WB. Would an out-of-focus picture acceptable ?
Many cameras have that limitation of focussing before exposure. When you walk in to fill the screen with the target, it may be impossible to focus. There is no problem as long as you are not casting a shadow on the target. So sharp or out of focus target will be as usefull to set [...]
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