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Early morning light
Published on 2010-09-30 09:42:00
I wanted to create a picture that invokes the sense of early morning light. This can be a typical cold blue light. To achieve this, I set my white balance to tungsten, which causes a blue color cast on the whole image. When you find the color too blue, you can compensate a bit by using white balance compensation. Reduce for less blue, increase for more blue color. In the case below I used a white balance compensation of -2. I then used a flash to separate the foreground from the background. To
Back since a long time
Published on 2010-07-12 13:30:00
It's been too long since I posted here. I thought I'd celebrate it by applying a new layout to this blog. Hope you like it. I have been experimenting a bit with product photography. As I recently purchase a set of Altec Lansing speakers for my iPod, I thought it might be fun to create an image of this that could be used in an advert for the speakers: setting must be outdoors, as the speakers can work on batteries (11 hours lifetime!!). So, I decided to photograph the speakers out on the terrace
Off-camera flash and white balance
Published on 2010-04-03 08:07:00
I once saw a picture by Joe McNally where he photographed a pretty standard office, but played with off-camera flash and white balance. I think the picture was in his excellent book 'The Hot Shoe Diaries'. The woman in the picture was behind computer screen. McNally had played with off-camera flash and with white balance. I decided to create a similar photograph. The first step in the process can be seen below. The image was created by setting the white balance to tungsten. This creates the blu
