jbr13
www.jbr.smugmug.com
It was great to see so many people posting again last weekend.
This weekends WIP will be perspective.
Perspective is an illusion in photography. It shows things like depth, distance, and can even make subjects appear larger than life. This can also give your picture a more realistic feel, or the feeling of being there. Things like, taking a picture of a tall building from right in front of it looking up, shooting a long hallway centered in the picture, or a subject that repeats as it diminishes into the back of the image. You could also use it to show the enormity of something like a body of water, like a boat in the distance that is really small surrounded by nothing but water.
So the assignment, should you choose to accept it? When taking pictures for this WIP#5, try to find something to show perspective. Make something seem really tall, continue on forever, or make it seem bigger than it really is. (For this WIP a macro of a bug would not be “making it bigger than it really is”)
Perspective showing a never-ending body of water.
Perspective in depth
Showing a tall perspective
EXTRA,
We have hit on White balance in a few posts this week so I thought I would add a little section for some extra learning is you like. Maybe it will help, I hope!
If your pictures seem to turn out with a yellow or reddish tint sometimes, what’s wrong?
Your White Balance is not correct, so lets play with this a little bit.
White Balance settings. Learning how to set your white balance (WB) is a valuable tool when your taking pictures. Just having the correct WB can make an image!
WB is used to set your camera for the temperature of the light you are using. What does that mean!!! Ok, color temperature is like a fire. In a fire you have yellow, blue, orange, and red flames. You even have white-hot coals. In light, for photography, you have basically the same thing. Lights color temperature changes depending on what the source of light is, just like temperature changes in the color of the flames in a fire. If you match up the WB to the color temperature of the light you are using, colors will look just like you see them. You have, Fluorescent light, Incandescent, Flash, Tungsten, Sunny, Cloudy, Shade, Auto, and maybe a few others as presets for WB on most cameras now. Setting your WB to the appropriate preset, that matches the color temperature of light being used, will make your colors match better to what the actual colors of the scene you are shooting. So if your out in the day time sun, set your camera to Sunny WB and things will look a little better than if you leave it in auto WB. Same goes if you are using flash or fluorescent lights, move the WB setting to match. Most cameras just don’t get things close enough in Auto WB all the time.
To do a little simple test, set up in one place no matter what your lighting is. Now shoot one picture in each WB preset. See what the differences are for yourself.
You can always correct WB in post processing programs like photoshop, but for the best results try to set your WB when you are shooting.
To set the WB exactly for your scene read your manual for white balance. This will set your camera for mixtures of temperatures of light and give you the best results.
If you have questions about the Perspective WIP feel free to ask them here, but if you have White Balance questions please start another thread and we can all discuss it in there.
TNX
This weekends WIP will be perspective.
Perspective is an illusion in photography. It shows things like depth, distance, and can even make subjects appear larger than life. This can also give your picture a more realistic feel, or the feeling of being there. Things like, taking a picture of a tall building from right in front of it looking up, shooting a long hallway centered in the picture, or a subject that repeats as it diminishes into the back of the image. You could also use it to show the enormity of something like a body of water, like a boat in the distance that is really small surrounded by nothing but water.
So the assignment, should you choose to accept it? When taking pictures for this WIP#5, try to find something to show perspective. Make something seem really tall, continue on forever, or make it seem bigger than it really is. (For this WIP a macro of a bug would not be “making it bigger than it really is”)
Perspective showing a never-ending body of water.
Perspective in depth
Showing a tall perspective
EXTRA,
We have hit on White balance in a few posts this week so I thought I would add a little section for some extra learning is you like. Maybe it will help, I hope!
If your pictures seem to turn out with a yellow or reddish tint sometimes, what’s wrong?
Your White Balance is not correct, so lets play with this a little bit.
White Balance settings. Learning how to set your white balance (WB) is a valuable tool when your taking pictures. Just having the correct WB can make an image!
WB is used to set your camera for the temperature of the light you are using. What does that mean!!! Ok, color temperature is like a fire. In a fire you have yellow, blue, orange, and red flames. You even have white-hot coals. In light, for photography, you have basically the same thing. Lights color temperature changes depending on what the source of light is, just like temperature changes in the color of the flames in a fire. If you match up the WB to the color temperature of the light you are using, colors will look just like you see them. You have, Fluorescent light, Incandescent, Flash, Tungsten, Sunny, Cloudy, Shade, Auto, and maybe a few others as presets for WB on most cameras now. Setting your WB to the appropriate preset, that matches the color temperature of light being used, will make your colors match better to what the actual colors of the scene you are shooting. So if your out in the day time sun, set your camera to Sunny WB and things will look a little better than if you leave it in auto WB. Same goes if you are using flash or fluorescent lights, move the WB setting to match. Most cameras just don’t get things close enough in Auto WB all the time.
To do a little simple test, set up in one place no matter what your lighting is. Now shoot one picture in each WB preset. See what the differences are for yourself.
You can always correct WB in post processing programs like photoshop, but for the best results try to set your WB when you are shooting.
To set the WB exactly for your scene read your manual for white balance. This will set your camera for mixtures of temperatures of light and give you the best results.
If you have questions about the Perspective WIP feel free to ask them here, but if you have White Balance questions please start another thread and we can all discuss it in there.
TNX
Thanks JBR! Looking forward to shooting 
