White balance help - Wedding photo

[bexman]

Re: White balance help - Wedding photo

Unfortunately that didnt work, white balance values were completely different in same positions on both photos but when I tweaked them it made it worse.....not really sure how else I can do this. Other than go take a photo of the steps again and then import the people on to them.

Any other white balance correction advice?!

[Trevoreast]

Re: White balance help - Wedding photo

Hi Bexman you're helping people to see - the hours of 'fun' you can have when you do someone a favour and shoot their wedding.

If given you how it's supposed to work in thoery, that's why I added

It should work for the same light temp - best on groups of shots in exactly the same conditions, if it works at all. :-)

I was talking about what you could so after the event, with software. As you can't practically recreate these shots, I thought advise on what you could have done prior to shooting would be irrelevant.

Try this article:

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/how-to-color-balance-your-flash-with-gels

You could have set a custom WB
Using a camera with a lot of megapixel gives you the oportunity to leave more space around the group to accommodate different print sizes without cutting off feet etc.
These points aren't very helpful - as you've already done the job, and have to deliver the pix.

The Pics don't look to bad to me, I see no reason why they wouldn't be pleased. In the context of an album I would have thought you'd only really need a couple of these group shots ?
Did you cover the whole day ?

Trev

[Woolley]

Re: White balance help - Wedding photo

Just to muddy the waters a little... In post 11 you've put the first as the one you're not happy with and the second as the one you are. This confuses me because I have them exactly opposite - the first looks spot on, the second a little muddy and over-flashed. Not bad, but not as good.

Which leads me to suspect your solution is two-fold: White balance being one and curves being the other?

[bexman]

Re: White balance help - Wedding photo

Just to muddy the waters a little... In post 11 you've put the first as the one you're not happy with and the second as the one you are. This confuses me because I have them exactly opposite - the first looks spot on, the second a little muddy and over-flashed. Not bad, but not as good.

Which leads me to suspect your solution is two-fold: White balance being one and curves being the other?

I suspected it may be the case! I'm a real photoshop amateur so can you explain the wb and curves thing? Thanks

[bexman]

Re: White balance help - Wedding photo

Hi Bexman you're helping people to see - the hours of 'fun' you can have when you do someone a favour and shoot their wedding.

If given you how it's supposed to work in thoery, that's why I added



I was talking about what you could so after the event, with software. As you can't practically recreate these shots, I thought advise on what you could have done prior to shooting would be irrelevant.

Try this article:

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/how-to-color-balance-your-flash-with-gels

You could have set a custom WB
Using a camera with a lot of megapixel gives you the oportunity to leave more space around the group to accommodate different print sizes without cutting off feet etc.
These points aren't very helpful - as you've already done the job, and have to deliver the pix.

The Pics don't look to bad to me, I see no reason why they wouldn't be pleased. In the context of an album I would have thought you'd only really need a couple of these group shots ?
Did you cover the whole day ?

Trev

Apologies Trev, I missed your reply! I understand and with hindsight I'd have taken a bit of gray card and sorted out the WB as ive read that helps too.

Thanks for the comments, I did shoot the whole day and out of 200 shots I'm not happy with a couple of the group shots and these were all taken indoors on these damn stairs! I guess experience tells me to check lighting etc..next time in advance but it was good experience and something I couldnt really turn down due it being my sister in law. I'm sure she'll be happy with them but I'm fussy and would like them perfect, but hey ho!!

[Derry-Canon Fan]

Re: White balance help - Wedding photo

Shoot RAW RAW RAW......especially something important like a wedding.
If you happen to have shot in jpeg, open your jpeg in RAW.
But yes, use the eye dropper or use custom and lower the temp.

Regards

[SamFisher]

Re: White balance help - Wedding photo

A grey card is for getting the exposure right.
Most grey cards are white on the reverse side so you can use this to take a custom WB reading.

Sounds like you're not having too much luck adjusting the WB.
Have you tried the Photo Filters in PS?
If its too yellow add a blue cooling filter.

or

Colour Balance and move the yellow/blue slider

Mike