You know those "Apple/Ipod" shots? I tried recreating it today for the green theme using my light box but shot after shot the apple looks more yellow than green, and the background has the same yellow tint. I've heard about adjusting for tungsten.. but I'm not sure what that actually means?
I used three utility lamps (soft white 100 watt bulbs) placed above, and on both sides of the light box..?
Any advice whatsoever would really help, thanks all :)
what do you use to edit your photos? you need some white balance adjustment, and if all else fails, you can fix it in post-process.
The opposite of yellow on the white balance temperature scale is blue, so you would want to increase the blue levels in your photo until the yellows even out. Check out this link, it has a very good visual: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/white-balance-examples.htm
Stephanie, I really like your idea! I pulled your image into Lightroom and tweaked exposure, contrast and temp (you want to move temp toward blue to get good whites). I imagine this is closer to what you were looking for:
I don't remember the specifics for your rebel, but there should be a menu option or button to change your white balance. You probably keep it on Auto, but you should switch it to "Incandescent" (should be a light-bulb looking icon). Tungsten is for those long lightbulbs I believe. I'd say dig in and fiddle around with your settings and you should be most of the way there!
@sdpace I took it into picnik and adjusted the blue levels like you said. And ta-da... :) Much thanks Stacy! And thank you for the link. I'll definitely be reading up on white balance now.
@grizzlysghost Thanks Aaron! Yep that's what I was going for. I completely forgot about changing my white balance in camera! I'm used to doing it on a p&s but since I upgraded (just yesterday!) I completely forgot. I'm probably going to do a re-shoot later this week, I'll remember to switch it to incandescent. Thanks again!
@bradleynovak I didn't shoot it in raw. How would I adjust the white balance if I did? (I've never shot in raw before, just upgraded from a p&s literally a day ago..)
@sailingmusic Thanks so much Myrna, I wish I could take the credit for the idea, isn't mine! But your comment still made my day :) :)
@attraversi If you shoot in RAW you can adjust the white balance in post without acutally changing the image. If you do it on a JPG it will change the image itself and reduce the quality of the image.
It's very easy to adjust the white balance in your camera too. Stick it in one of the manual modes, while looking at the home screen press "set", then use the arrows until you highlight "auto" (which is what the white balance will probably be set to before you change it) and press "set" again to bring up the options, then highlight the one you need. There will be little visuals of sun, shade, cloud, tungsten etc but it does have labels to tell you which it is. Sorry if this isn't entirely accurate - just woken up and I don't have my camera handy.
@attraversi You will find most photo processing application will do it. I use lightroom for this type of work but I do believe there are free applications out there.
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Brilliant!! Sorry I don't know about light boxes.
The opposite of yellow on the white balance temperature scale is blue, so you would want to increase the blue levels in your photo until the yellows even out. Check out this link, it has a very good visual:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/white-balance-examples.htm
http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/g349/GrizzlysGhost/11of1.jpg
I don't remember the specifics for your rebel, but there should be a menu option or button to change your white balance. You probably keep it on Auto, but you should switch it to "Incandescent" (should be a light-bulb looking icon). Tungsten is for those long lightbulbs I believe. I'd say dig in and fiddle around with your settings and you should be most of the way there!
@sdpace I took it into picnik and adjusted the blue levels like you said. And ta-da... :) Much thanks Stacy! And thank you for the link. I'll definitely be reading up on white balance now.
@grizzlysghost Thanks Aaron! Yep that's what I was going for. I completely forgot about changing my white balance in camera! I'm used to doing it on a p&s but since I upgraded (just yesterday!) I completely forgot. I'm probably going to do a re-shoot later this week, I'll remember to switch it to incandescent. Thanks again!
@bradleynovak I didn't shoot it in raw. How would I adjust the white balance if I did? (I've never shot in raw before, just upgraded from a p&s literally a day ago..)
@sailingmusic Thanks so much Myrna, I wish I could take the credit for the idea, isn't mine! But your comment still made my day :) :)
@cally I found it, thanks Cally!