Lighting - White Balance
We investigated the use of various different types of lighting such as flourescent, natural, strobe and tungsten light. Different sources of light have different variations of colour. For example tungsten light is tinged slightly yellow, where as fluorescent light is slightly blue. This was in order to generate an understanding of when a particular variation of lighting is best suited to present different scenes and situations. Adding to this I practiced utilizing and altering the white balance settings (WB) on my camera. This was in order to create images with appropriate intensity's of light and fitting shades of colour.
White balance is the process of removing unrealistic colour casts, so that objects that appear white in person, are rendered white in one's captured photograph. Camera's white balance must take in to account the "colour temperature" of a light source, this is the relative warmth or coolness of such white light. Naturally the human eye can distinguish what is white under different light sources, however cameras have difficulty doing this; thus cameras can generate unsightly blue, orange or on unfrequent occasions green color casts. Due to this we investigated the use of WB in order to help us create realistic, sightly images which present an accurate interpretation of the moment of capturing. On the other hand I find that although White Balance helps iradicate inaccurate color casts, I found that actually exciting this obscured color casts provides an abstract more visually enhanced image. Nevertheless it depends on what one wishes to present through their photography.
White balance is the process of removing unrealistic colour casts, so that objects that appear white in person, are rendered white in one's captured photograph. Camera's white balance must take in to account the "colour temperature" of a light source, this is the relative warmth or coolness of such white light. Naturally the human eye can distinguish what is white under different light sources, however cameras have difficulty doing this; thus cameras can generate unsightly blue, orange or on unfrequent occasions green color casts. Due to this we investigated the use of WB in order to help us create realistic, sightly images which present an accurate interpretation of the moment of capturing. On the other hand I find that although White Balance helps iradicate inaccurate color casts, I found that actually exciting this obscured color casts provides an abstract more visually enhanced image. Nevertheless it depends on what one wishes to present through their photography.