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Shooting for colored skin
How can you deal with subjects with different skintone in the same picture? How do you expose? The secret: forget about the skin tone and expose and white balance on a greycardor even best with the ColorBalanceCoach target. By choosing a neutral andstandardized target, you will make a photographic decision on fixed basis.HOW-TO: place the [...]
Read moreThe quality of light
Very often I’m asked by students why the color of the same object may look different in 2 consecutive pictures? The more obvious reason is the usage of the auto white balance on the camera, but in some occasions, we found the flash used to be defective. If the flash does not send the same [...]
Read moreColor 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 [...]
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