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hello you all!
i need some help on this idea. i am photographing interior shots of an office. color film. digital slr. 22-35mm lens. i am seriously concerned about how the color balance and lighting conditions are to be attacked. there are windows scattered throughout the open cubicle-style office and various types of lighting (flourescent, incandescent, daylight that will be coming in from the windows) i have a strobes set of two, slr digital camera, no filters, and photoshop. i am leaning on the idea of balancing the various types of lighting conditions with my K color temp. digital manual controls and then taking the images into photoshop and compositing them. i'm not savy with my lights, color balancing, camera, or photoshop but know a little about each of them. can you help me please? anything will do me well. i thank you all out there. sincerely, O. |
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Purchase a copy of Katrin Eismann's "Photoshot Masking and Compositing" -
she'll show you exactly how to do all that you ask - along with a lot more - in addition to some great examples. |
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opera wrote:
hello you all! i need some help on this idea. i am photographing interior shots of an office. color film. digital slr. 22-35mm lens. i am seriously concerned about how the color balance and lighting conditions are to be attacked. there are windows scattered throughout the open cubicle-style office and various types of lighting (flourescent, incandescent, daylight that will be coming in from the windows) i have a strobes set of two, slr digital camera, no filters, and photoshop. You say "film" above but "digital" here. i am leaning on the idea of balancing the various types of lighting conditions with my K color temp. digital manual controls and then taking the images into photoshop and compositing them. i'm not savy with my lights, color balancing, camera, or photoshop but know a little about each of them. can you help me please? It's going to be evil. Mixed lighting is always very difficult to deal with and the people who do this stuff full-time try to avoid it. They do this by fixing the light. This involves things like putting gels in light shades and replacing cheap fluorescent tubes with daylight balanced ones. They also take their own lights to the shoot. It is possible to do what you suggest, but be prepared for more than one visit to the site. Andrew. |
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Andrew Haley wrote: It's going to be evil. Mixed lighting is always very difficult to deal with and the people who do this stuff full-time try to avoid it. They do this by fixing the light. This involves things like putting gels in light shades and replacing cheap fluorescent tubes with daylight balanced ones. They also take their own lights to the shoot. It is possible to do what you suggest, but be prepared for more than one visit to the site. It is also possible to use each light source (or type, if multiple sources are used for a type) independently, in separate exposures, and white-balancing them separately in RAW before compositing them, if there is no motion involved. -- John P Sheehy |
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Andrew Haley writes:
It's going to be evil. Mixed lighting is always very difficult to deal with and the people who do this stuff full-time try to avoid it. They do this by fixing the light. This involves things like putting gels in light shades and replacing cheap fluorescent tubes with daylight balanced ones. They also take their own lights to the shoot. And putting conversion gels over the *outside* of the windows; in fact there's a standard gel the gaffer truck has in it that's combined daylight-to-tungsten and neutral density, to tone down the daylight to the sort of level you light an interior location to. Very convenient! -- David Dyer-Bennet, , http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ |
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