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Title: Chapter 3 Assignment - Seeing The Light Post by: goldcoastgolfer on October 26, 2011, 12:55:47 PM I've struggled a little with taking this one so I resorted to taking random photos of some of my kids. The one I chose was a little unexpected - one of my middle son pausing in the middle of a book he was reading before he went to sleep to listen to his mother. I'd turned his lamp on rather than using his bedroom light to see if I could get a more interesting light effect.
Initially my camera compensated for the warm glow cast, making the first shots brighter than what I was actually seeing. I changed the white balance to maintain the warm glow that's evident in this photo. This shot is cropped from the original - I found that this frame is better than the original and captures the mood a lot better. Taken with a Nikon D7000 and a Sigma 17-70mm 2.8-4 DC Macro OS HSM with the following settings: Focal Length: 70mm (105mm in 35mm film) Exposure: 1/15s F Number: F/4 White Balance: Incandescent (3000K) ISO: 6400 Title: Re: Chapter 3 Assignment - Seeing The Light Post by: InspiringFotos on October 26, 2011, 02:24:28 PM I like the mood that this picture gives off. It looks like your child is in deep thought of the material that he is reading from the book. I like the warm glow effect. I sometimes have issues with the lighting that is given from the lamps or fixtures in the home. For example: those energy saving compact fluorescent bulbs. The ones that I have in the living-room looks like a warm glow, but when I use my camera it has a green tint without flash or blue with flash. I just bought a different brand of energy bulbs for my bedroom and it gives off a white/blue glow. So this is an area that I need to play with the white balance setting to get the right lighting effect for my pictures when I am using the camera indoors. Most of the time the white balance on the camera is either AWB or daylight.
Title: Re: Chapter 3 Assignment - Seeing The Light Post by: goldcoastgolfer on October 26, 2011, 02:53:02 PM I found that the camera's auto setting definitely defaulted the photo to a brighter image rather than the warm view that I was going for. My Nikon's white balance settings seems to default to trying to get what a well lit scenario would ordinarily look like so I definitely had to change the white balance to get this look.
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