ShacharLee
Offline
• • •
Upload & Sell: Off
|
| p.3 #1 · How much does WB matter? | |
Inku Yo wrote:
ShacharLee wrote:
Inku Yo wrote:
ShacharLee wrote:
mccallmedia wrote:
Inku Yo wrote:
TRReichman wrote:
What all do we have to think about that WB is so hard to manage?
- trr
Observing. Moving from room to room/mixed lighting situations. I'd rather keep my eye on the action than be looking down adjusting settings every time I move. That's just me, though.
+1. The last wedding I shot solo. The bride and bridesmaids were getting ready in a room lit solely by tungsten. The guys were in an room close by with lots of window light coming in. As I walked from the room the girls were getting ready in I caught a quick moment occurring between family outside which I shot quickly through the living room window. I barely had time to adjust my exposure for the outside light before the moment was gone, but I caught it.
It's times like these that I'm glad I don't have to worry about switching my WB or whipping out a gray card. I can adjust shutter, aperture, ISO, focus point, AF mode, burst mode, etc without taking my eye out of the viewfinder. But I have to take the camera off my face and look down at it for WB. And a gray card adds even more time to the equation.
Just because we try to get it right in camera doesn't mean we do not shoot raw and we can't change it in post you know  if I don't have time and I want to grab something real fast than I can just leave it as is and change it later, yes I might get this one image really off but I rather have a few way off than all the images a little off.
You are all talking like the viewfinder is glued to your eyes all day, OK I get that's sometimes thing go real fast and you barley have time to even set exposure (although I assume you don't switch to P mode just to not miss anything...) but what about most of the times when you do have time, why not at least try to get it right then?
Are you saying you get WB perfect in camera all the time and NEVER have to adjust in post?
AWB = one less thing I have to worry about.
Of curse not! but I adjust it a lot less now than when I used to shoot in auto and even better than this is I can see right there in the moment pretty much what my final image is going to like and I don't have to imagine what it would look like with a different WB.
I never worry about it because I know I can always fix it later if I set it up wrong or didn't have time to set it up at all but if I have the time than why not try to get it right? after a while you kind of learn just by looking around you what is the correct kelvin so i'ts easy.
Not really debating the ease in which to set WB. It's easy, no doubt. But, if you're going to fix it or adjust it later, why even worry about it at all?
Because I usually only adjust WB in about 20% of my images (mostly getting ready) and because I usually hate the WB auto chooses and I want to see right there in the moment what my image looks like with the WB I like.
Inku Yo wrote:
What K do you set it for when the lights are on and there's a window in the room? Some people hanging by the window and some over on the couch by the lamps? Moments happening in both locations?
That's easy, in that case I'll just shoot a very wide B&W 
Maybe our style of shooting is just different, I'm not really a fast snapper kind of girl (and if I did I promise you WB would be the least of my concerns ) and most of the time I don't really feel the need to be. If I'm in a room with multiple things happening in different areas, like mom getting ready at one corner and bride getting ready at the other, I will just shoot one thing at the time, go to the bride get all my camera setting right, my composition, angle etc, take a few shots and then move on and do the same with mom, and if something really interesting happens really fast with the bride while I'm shooting mom then I'll do almost the same as you, leave the WB as is and fix it in post, but like I said most of the time I don't feel that rushed that I can't spare a second or two to move my eye from the viewfinder, also I find extreme fast variables lighting temp situations are not that common in most of the wedding day.
|
