Regarding Digital Photos. or Photography in general.

[PlatinumGold]

My pictures lately have been coming out too blue. too much blue. do i need a UV filter? is that the primary problem or is it something else? i've tried, aperature priority, shutter priority, but i seem to get bad colors.

 

[conjur]

Incorrect White Balance setting?

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: conjur
Incorrect White Balance setting?

that was it.

 

[Eli]

heh.

 

[conjur]

:beer:

 

[PlatinumGold]

:beer: :beer:

 

[Eli]

Text

:Q

 

[GTaudiophile]

White balance correct or not, my Canon G2 pictures often come out a tad bluish, lacking warmth.

My solution: Image > Adjustments > Color Balance > (And add a little red, magenta, and yellow).

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: conjur
Incorrect White Balance setting?

that was it.

And this is why white balance calibration cards should be standard with every camera with manual WB adjustment. Seriously, if you're at all serious about your craft, invest the $2 in one, or at least use a sheet of crazy bright white paper.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
White balance correct or not, my Canon G2 pictures often come out a tad bluish, lacking warmth.

My solution: Image > Adjustments > Color Balance > (And add a little red, magenta, and yellow).

mine was weird. TOO much red and yellow indoors with indoor lighting and wayy to blue outdoors with bright sunlight. my kodakdx3700 with no adjustments at all was getting me better colors than my sony dsc.

i guess that's the price of being ignorant (not reading the fvcking manual).

 

[GTaudiophile]

Hmmm. Are there saturation and contrast settings on your camera? Try adjusting those.

 

[PlatinumGold]

when is shutter priority better and when is aperature priority better?

i usually shoot a-priority.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I think you want a-priority in high-light conditions and s-priority in low-light conditions.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
when is shutter priority better and when is aperature priority better?

i usually shoot a-priority.

Here's the way I do it - when I don't care about depth of field (which is rare), or if I'm shooting a fast-moving object.
For instance, shooting a college basketball game, good blur in the background is useless if the player himself is a blur. The shutter speed needs to be fast enough to capture the subject, so I'll pick that speed and let the camera manage the aperture.

But for general photography, I use aperture priority the most so that I can use the aperture to manage depth of field and let the camera manage the shutter speed.

 

[PlatinumGold]

I should just get a Point and Shoot and forget about it.

i guess i'm not ever gonna be the world class photographer my great great grandfather wanted me to be.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I should just get a Point and Shoot and forget about it.

i guess i'm not ever gonna be the world class photographer my great great grandfather wanted me to be.

Stick with it. Keep reading and messing around. Practice, practice, practice.
Especially with digital photography, you take hundreds of pictures and try every possible combination you want. You no longer are wasting hundreds of dollars in film, chems and paper, and hours in the darkroom.
You have a golden opportunity to take thousands of pictures for little more than the cost of your camera.

Remember that for every good picture you see, there are probably 30 thrown in the darkroom garbage can...if they even bothered to print them after looking at the neg.

You have to take a lot of pics to increase your chances of getting the great shot.
That's why digital is so great now that it's finally starting to "come of age."

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I should just get a Point and Shoot and forget about it.

i guess i'm not ever gonna be the world class photographer my great great grandfather wanted me to be.

Stick with it. Keep reading and messing around. Practice, practice, practice.
Especially with digital photography, you take hundreds of pictures and try every possible combination you want. You no longer are wasting hundreds of dollars in film, chems and paper, and hours in the darkroom.
You have a golden opportunity to take thousands of pictures for little more than the cost of your camera.

Remember that for every good picture you see, there are probably 30 thrown in the darkroom garbage can...if they even bothered to print them after looking at the neg.

You have to take a lot of pics to increase your chances of getting the great shot.
That's why digital is so great now that it's finally starting to "come of age."

thanks

actually that is probably the most significant reason my wife decided to let go the film cameras. she likes the idea of shooting shooting shooting and then just selecting what we want to develop (she likes kodak paper photos so we go to walmart and have them process them for 27 cents a piece).

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I should just get a Point and Shoot and forget about it.

i guess i'm not ever gonna be the world class photographer my great great grandfather wanted me to be.

Stick with it. Keep reading and messing around. Practice, practice, practice.
Especially with digital photography, you take hundreds of pictures and try every possible combination you want. You no longer are wasting hundreds of dollars in film, chems and paper, and hours in the darkroom.
You have a golden opportunity to take thousands of pictures for little more than the cost of your camera.

Remember that for every good picture you see, there are probably 30 thrown in the darkroom garbage can...if they even bothered to print them after looking at the neg.

You have to take a lot of pics to increase your chances of getting the great shot.
That's why digital is so great now that it's finally starting to "come of age."

thanks

actually that is probably the most significant reason my wife decided to let go the film cameras. she likes the idea of shooting shooting shooting and then just selecting what we want to develop (she likes kodak paper photos so we go to walmart and have them process them for 27 cents a piece).

It's the truth. I took about 120 digital pics on my last vacation, but only about 40 of them are really worth printing. If I was using film, I'd have taken about 1/2 that b/c of film cost, and printed all of them, even if they sucked.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Just continue playing with it. If there is a Manual mode, switch to that and play with everything. Fill up that CF card and make sure every picture was taken at a different setting. Download them into PhotoShop and find what worked and what didn't.

My next camera will be a DSLR, allowing me to play even more settings. I look forward to it!