I haven't gone out on a shoot in a long while, but I have done a bit of conenv. The lemons I took a few weeks ago (obviously) and the coins I took last night. http://eccentriceggman.deviantart.com/art/...Above-111309453 http://eccentriceggman.deviantart.com/art/...hange-112051587 http://eccentriceggman.deviantart.com/art/Change-112054356
I'm a huge fan of the lemon's =o the second I saw that as a entry I knew it was the winner lol. also quick question what do you use as a white background =[ and I should get better lights\lamps to use in my house all their bulbs give a yellow glow :x and i like the 2nd coin picture i like the angle it makes me more curious about the coins.
Yellow glow doesn't make a difference. You need to set your white balance, dude . I don't know where that is on Canon, but I need you to find the K (Kelvin) settings for me, and then I'll tell you what to do with them Those pictures have a construction paper feel to them. Local, find some large white sheets of construction paper. You might have to double them up to keep things from showing through. There's some tricks to lights... and I know nothing about strobes, but I get to check out a tungsten light kit from my school on Tuesday . And re-checkout the 5 in 1 reflector kit ^_^ We'll go into a short lesson here (sorry Eggman, I've hijacked your thread for the moment). The human eye sees cloudy days, sunny days, tungsten, and candle light as white (candle light is a little warmer). The camera, however, does not automatically adjust to the light like our eyes, and all of these have different amounts of blue or yellow. AWB (auto white balance) allows it to automatically do that, but it is easily tricked into choosing the wrong settings. Auto is never a good thing. So, what do you do when your white balance is off and your pictures have a gross hue? Why, you change it, of course! In tungsten lighting, if your white balance is set to daylight, it will be far far more yellow. If it's set to candlelight, it will be too blue. You have to have it at tungsten (3200K) to have your white be white. Just remember how our eyes can't adjust when it's dusk. There's too much blue. That's the problem your camera has in any lighting situation unless you tell it what to do I'll go into Kelvin temperature settings when you find them ...sorry about the hijack. I promise I'll critique those later (God willing, of course), but I have to get ready to leave now...
aha =p I knew it was messing around with something to change it just didn't know what =p ty for the help =p also ye I figured out it was kinda construction paper just normally I used printe rpaper cos im to cheap to go to the store
I bought two painters lights from walmart for about $14 each, and they have been working great for me. I only used one light from a shallow angle for the coin pictures, which made the background gray. The lemons I used 3 different lights, 2 painters lights and a normal lamp in my house. I did mess up on the lemons which I didn't realize till afterwards, I had the lights reflecting right off the paper into my lens, and slightly pointed at my lens. My lens hood was a nice addition to getting rid of the over exposure I had with lemons. I use a white poster board for my pictures, it allows me a lot more room and a lot more angles.
