Applying White Balance
Lesson 7 from: Mastering Your Digital CameraChris Weston
Applying White Balance
Lesson 7 from: Mastering Your Digital CameraChris Weston
Lesson Info
7. Applying White Balance
Lessons
Buttons, Dials and Switches: What This Course is All About
03:37 2Setting Up Your Camera
05:25 3JPEG or RAW
03:11 4Compression
01:38 5Menu Settings for JPEG Shooting
05:19 6Module 1 Summary
01:42 7Applying White Balance
03:41 8Using White Balance Creatively
01:19Auto White Balance
03:07 10Module 2 Summary
01:31 11Controlling Exposure
01:23 12F Numbers
03:06 13Lens, Aperture, and Shutter Speed
03:32 14Exposure Modes
01:48 15Too Little or Too Much Light
02:34 16Manual Exposure Mode
01:37 17Aperture Priority Exposure Mode
02:23 18Module 3 Summary
01:40 19ISO in Practice
01:16 20ISO and Noise
05:03 21An Acceptable ISO
01:23 22Module 4 Summary
01:29 23Metering Modes
03:06 24The Light Meter
02:11 25The Bucket Test
02:12 26How To Read Tonality
02:32 27Being Creative With Tone
01:14 28Exposure Compensation
01:35 29High Contrast Lighting
03:39 30Histogram
02:06 31Highlights Alert
01:32 32Never Underexpose
04:16 33Digital Exposure Mantra
01:25 34Module 5 Summary
02:57 35Focus Modes
01:23 36Autofocus
02:59 37Point of Focus
02:35 38Depth of Field
02:41 39Hyper-Focal Distance Focusing
02:51 40Focus Tracking
04:19 41Manual Focus
01:57 42Predictive Focus
01:03 43Summary
02:32 44Buying Lenses
05:00 45Summary
01:45 46Quality of Light
01:32 47Direction of Light
01:52 48No Such Thing as Good Light
02:00 49Final Word
02:52 50BONUS - In Conversation with Art Wolfe
07:11 51BONUS - The Source of Creativity
06:34Lesson Info
Applying White Balance
what happens to a piece of metal when you heat it up as well as getting hot, it also changes color. First of all, it goes red as in red hot. Then it goes orange, then yellow, then white is white hot. After that, it starts to melt. If you leave it in the fire. If you take it out and it starts to cool down, it does the same color change, but in reverse. Now what does this got to do with photography? Well, exactly the same thing happens to the color of light as the sun rises during the course of the day. So it's sunrise first thing in the morning. The light is very red. About an hour after sunrise, it goes an orange, which is that golden hour that we often talk about things like landscape photography, and it goes yellow sort of mid. Morning on by. Noon is gone to a very neutral white light. Now, as human beings, we don't see these changes in color temperature because our brain is fitted with a white balance control and the purpose of that white balance controlling the brain is to filter o...
ut all of the color casts created by the different times of the day. The different environments, even the different sources of light so that we see all light is neutral white light. Your camera, on the other hand, will pick up these color casts unless you do something about it and there is a control in the camera to help you do that. And that control is called the white balance Control. Do you remember these? These are color correction filters, which are commonly referred to his warming and calling filters. And orange warming filter absorbs blue light, and a blue calling filter absorbs red light. There used either neutralized color casts or, more creatively to add or enhance color casts. Now you can think of the white man. It's controlling your cameras, doing exactly the same thing just digitally. If you go to the white balance control, you'll find a set of icons on the exact number and type will depend on your camera, but they're a six. Common wants sunlight, which is sometimes called daylight, flash cloudy shade, fluorescent and tungsten, which is sometimes referred to his incandescent. And these icons represent preset white balance values that correspond to different environmental conditions. or sources of light in order to get rid of color casts or you have to do is juicy, appropriate icon for the conditions you're in on an overcast day. All of this cloud cover is absorbing red light waves, and that's going to create a blue color caste. Now, even though is daylight. If I was to photograph this scene on daylight white balance, I'm going to see that color cast in the photograph. But by switching to cloudy white balance and matching white buns with the environmental conditions, I can neutralize the color cast for much more natural looking image. And the same applies for all of the other white balance setting. So if my subject is in deep shade, if I switch to shade, I'll get a neutral image. If I'm using flash, if I switch to flash, I'll get a neutral looking image. The same applies to artificial light sources. Artificial light, such as those found in a photographic studio, have different color temperatures. Elektronik Flash, for example, is very soon with daylight, but a tungsten studio lamp would have a very red or orangey color caste on Justus White. Balance allows me to compensate for the different color temperatures caused by the weather. It also allows me to compensate for the different color temperatures of different light sources. So the number one reason for white balance is to get rid of unwanted color casts caused by environmental conditions or by different sources of light. No.
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Ratings and Reviews
mark jacobson
What a marvelous course! What a marvelous teacher! When I went to college, my father would always ask me about my professors, more than the courses themselves. He was passionate about learning and although too busy with earning an income to go beyond an undergrad degree, continued to read 50 books a year. I still remember how he'd get almost visibly excited when I'd tell him about some special professor who taught with such enthusiasm and, more than just passion, evident delight and joy in the subject. 'Ah they're the best, son. How wonderful you have such a teacher." Well, he passed away decades ago but if he were still around I'd get a kick out of telling him about Chris Weston, the 'Prof' of this course. He's one of the very special ones: a teacher who's loved and lived his vocation--his avocation--since he was a boy--and still is as excited about it now as he was then. The result: a course that seems to be more a labor of love--of pouring far more energy and thought into the details then one typically finds in these courses--than anything else. Bravo Chris! I'm already on to your next one.
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Chris is an amazing instructor who dissects theory giving amazing analogies that bring concepts to life. I have rarely been able to sit through most video course for more than a half-hour but watched this one from beginning to end. A good refresher course if you've been away from the camera for awhile or there are some concepts that still illude you. I highly recommend this course and look forward to watching his others. Thank you for the clarity and great explanations.
Sky Bergman
This was an amazing class. I have looked at a number of basic photography classes. This one was by far the best I have seen. Chris is an exceptional teacher. He breaks things down into digestible information and then inspires you to be creative. Thank you!