 Tara R. Swartzendruber |
Color Temp with Photogenic 1250 Does anyone know the specific color temp of a Photogenic 1250 strobe light? Someone suggested that strobes should say their color temp output in their material, but I can't find any info about this. I still struggle with WB in the studio, having tried auto, flash and daylight. I'm wondering if I set a specific number if that would help. Thanks!
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Pete H |
Tara, Most studio strobes will center around 5,500K or daylight (+-) 200K. Deviating downward will cause a slight blue shift, upwards, a slight shift to the red. Neither excursion will give you poor color balance.
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hi Tara, Just wanted to mention that shooting in Raw will allow you to easily change/correct color balance after the shot with Photoshop ACR or other RAW editing software.
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Marc D. Bell |
Hi Tara, I'm sure you're metering your lights, correct? When shooting with strobes (my preferrence is Paul C. Buff's: White Lightning) you should adjust your color temperature ("K" Kelvin) and take shots of something with several colors in it. Then shoot a couple of shots with all Kelvin temp. settings and find which setting gives you the results you desire. I would also keep a list of images you shot and which K setting temp. you used to capture the image. It's much better to learn from experience and not simply go into a photo altering program to fix your images. I'm sure you will figure it out. Good luck!
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W. Smith VIII |
Ask the horse's mouth: Photogenic.
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Tara R. Swartzendruber |
OK, I hesitate to respond because I think some of you might just roll your eyes at me.... BUT, here goes. I did ask photogenic. The color temp of my main and fill light are 5800, the temp of my backlights are 5200 (also photogenic). I have the most trouble with light haired people (i.e. my light-brown haired baby shows up more blond). I have tried many ways of adjusting the lights and camera (for exposure), and the way that I generally use them seems to work the best...other settings make my white background more blue or grey. I want it to be white. So I've focused on white balance to see if I can correct things there. But 5800K gives a slight orange cast to the white background (although it exposes the hair correctly), which I can correct somewhat using "levels," but I'd like to get things more correct. I know some of you will say to use a light-meter, but my style of photography just doesn't seem to allow this very well. I take pix of babies/little kids who don't just stay in one place so I can meter them, they move all around and I, too constantly move. I know what settings (exposure)work good when I am close to their face, and when I am futher back, etc.... the biggest problem is that my light-haired kids get "lighter" and sometimes men's/teen guy's faces show up more red than they should (esp. on black background), so I am trying to adjust white balance. I have tried a number of different settings, but nothing seems to work quite right. Anyone who has helpful advice for me on what I am doing right or wrong, I would welcome...
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W. Smith VIII |
Get backlights with a color temp of 5800?
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Tara R. Swartzendruber |
any reason not to get my main lights at 5200K?
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Tara R. Swartzendruber |
This is the option I get....still looks a bit grey/redish. If I change my exposure to get rid of the grey/red, the subject looks washed out. Any ideas?
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