Friday, June 17, 2011

Friday, June 3, 2011

white balance

white balence definitions:


  • Auto – this is where the camera makes a best guess on a shot by shot basis. You’ll find it works in many situations but it’s worth venturing out of it for trickier lighting.

  • Tungsten – this mode is usually symbolized with a little bulb and is for shooting indoors, especially under tungsten (incandescent) lighting (such as bulb lighting). It generally cools down the colors in photos.

  • Fluorescent – this compensates for the ‘cool’ light of fluorescent light and will warm up your shots.

  • Daylight/Sunny – not all cameras have this setting because it sets things as fairly ‘normal’ white balance settings.

  • Cloudy – this setting generally warms things up a touch more than ‘daylight’ mode.

  • Flash – the flash of a camera can be quite a cool light so in Flash WB mode you’ll find it warms up your shots a touch.

  • Shade – the light in shade is generally cooler (bluer) than shooting in direct sunlight so this mode will warm things up a little




  • no flash                                                                         flash

    ansel adams zones - media arts


    the inner part of the road has zones 1, 2, 3
    the line in the middle of the road is zone 9 and 10
    the sky is mostly zone 2
    the clouds are zone 1 on the inside and zone 7 on the outside
    the mountain in the back are zone 1


    the guys camera is zone 0
    the car is mostly zone 8
    the sky is zone 5
    most of the mountains on the left are 3 and 4
    the inner wooden part of the cra is zone 2 and 3