New Topic "Artificial Light" ... Interpret this in any way you want, but let me know if you want any technical info, and I'll see what I can come up with.
I think of this as not using sunlight (so night time photography or indoors using another source of light....thats how I'll approach it) Can't help with any technical info, as I only use natural light, so this will be new for me :) Will be fun to play around with this.
Hey Johanna, to give you a few pointers - when your digital camera is set for taking photos in daylight (or when using daylight balanced film) taking photos with other light sources will give you a different colour temperature to your photo - ie flourescent lights give a green colour cast, halogen lights give a yellow cast, and incandescent light bulb brings out a slight blue tint in pictures. If you are aware of this you can either use it as an element in your photography, or know what to avoid if you don't want it (or just use photoshop to correct it!)
When taking photos at night, you would need a tripod/ other method of keeping the camera steady (if you want the photo in focus that is) & I would encourage you to use bracketing - (taking the same photo with different exposures) for example 1st with 5sec shutter speen (metered at under exposure) 2nd with 10sec (metered at correct exposure), 3rd with 15sec (metered at over exposure)
Does this help?? Is there anything else that you had in mind?
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technical info please :)
I think of this as not using sunlight (so night time photography or indoors using another source of light....thats how I'll approach it) Can't help with any technical info, as I only use natural light, so this will be new for me :) Will be fun to play around with this.
Hey Johanna, to give you a few pointers - when your digital camera is set for taking photos in daylight (or when using daylight balanced film) taking photos with other light sources will give you a different colour temperature to your photo - ie flourescent lights give a green colour cast, halogen lights give a yellow cast, and incandescent light bulb brings out a slight blue tint in pictures. If you are aware of this you can either use it as an element in your photography, or know what to avoid if you don't want it (or just use photoshop to correct it!)
When taking photos at night, you would need a tripod/ other method of keeping the camera steady (if you want the photo in focus that is) & I would encourage you to use bracketing - (taking the same photo with different exposures) for example 1st with 5sec shutter speen (metered at under exposure) 2nd with 10sec (metered at correct exposure), 3rd with 15sec (metered at over exposure)
Does this help?? Is there anything else that you had in mind?
That does help. Thanks Beth. I figure you (and Emma) have a lot of sweet skills with this stuff so want to get as much info from you as possible :)
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