Re: Recommended Reading
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I don’t want to get into a long drawn out debate in the book section Brian. Maybe you could start another topic if you’re interested.
Based on what you’ve written, imho there are two issues here basic exposure and colour temperature.
Or the basic exposure side of things, you could do a lot worse than refer to your new book “understanding exposure “.
The link below is a good article on colour temp / wb
Hope this helps,
Millie
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Trust me - doing it with flash comp is the best way and the most accurate for colours. Apart from which you dont have to mess with post processing - which is difficult without a reference white
Firstly the colour balance may not be wrong - it is the amount of light getting to the dark object which is the issue.The camera and flash takes into account the available light and will reduce the flash output accordingly when there is a predominately white backgound. So to get the right light on a dark object it is necessary to increase the flash strength.
To lighten up the dark object after the event will increase the noise of that dark object, doing it by flash compensation avoids that issue, but introduces a possible burning out of the background which can be avoided by reducing normal exposure compensation - however if the dark object is the focus I feel that it is most important to get that correct in the camera.
This also applies to fill in flash with the sun/light behind people
Firstly the colour balance may not be wrong - it is the amount of light getting to the dark object which is the issue.The camera and flash takes into account the available light and will reduce the flash output accordingly when there is a predominately white backgound. So to get the right light on a dark object it is necessary to increase the flash strength.
To lighten up the dark object after the event will increase the noise of that dark object, doing it by flash compensation avoids that issue, but introduces a possible burning out of the background which can be avoided by reducing normal exposure compensation - however if the dark object is the focus I feel that it is most important to get that correct in the camera.
This also applies to fill in flash with the sun/light behind people
Based on what you’ve written, imho there are two issues here basic exposure and colour temperature.
Or the basic exposure side of things, you could do a lot worse than refer to your new book “understanding exposure “.
The link below is a good article on colour temp / wb
Hope this helps,
Millie
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