I've written these two articles to give you some basic and intermediate suggestions to properly color balance your photographs through a wedding. As I stated in the other write-up, a wedding has several light sources and these light sources compete to be the primary light in your photographs. The issue is, if these light sources have pretty unique color temperatures, your images will have an incorrect white balance. Envision taking a picture exactly where the space is lit by fluorescent overhead lighting, but in the corner of the room there is a set of candles in front of a white wall. These two rather completely different light sources will give you an incorrect white balance. To preserve this from happening, you will want to be conscious of light sources through a wedding. I discussed this in the 1st post, as properly as how to use your flash without a colored gel in daylight, or exactly where the primary light source is daylight. In this post I will give you suggestions on how to correctly gel your flash in distinct lighting circumstances.
Indoors you will commonly be faced with one particular of 3 key light sources. These are: daylight, fluorescent, and tungsten. When you enter a room you will require to be able to identify the primary source of light, then match it. I talked about daylight in the previous post. If your light source is fluorescent, they you will need to have to put a fluorescent gel on your flash and set the white balance on your camera to fluorescent lighting. These days there are quite a few distinctive varieties of fluorescent lighting with several color temperatures. This signifies you will want to carry a couple of diverse fluorescent gels with you. Likewise, you will will need a few diverse CTO gels to match diverse kinds of tungsten lighting. These tungsten gels are: full CTO, 1/2 CTO, and 1/four CTO. As ahead of, put a CTO gel on your flash and set the white balance on your camera to tungsten. With either a fluorescent gel or CTO gel, attempt diverse ones out and see what matches greatest the primary light in the room.
If you enter a space and see competing light sources you will need to remedy the situation. In the opening instance with the space lit by candles and fluorescent lighting you have two options: blow out the candles or turn off the overhead lighting. If the candles are not going to be in frame, or they are far sufficient from where you are shooting such that they are not giving off competing light then you can shoot no difficulty. Following this principle, if I enter a space and there is tungsten light, I am not going to shoot with my bare flash (which is made to match daylight). I need to have to identify that the main source is tungsten, and put on a gel to match it.
Lastly, sunrise and sunset is not typical daylight! This signifies when shooting the wedding couple with the sunset in the background for instance, you will will need to use a CTO gel on your flash. Which one particular? As stated above, attempt completely different ones, and see which a single very best suits the light the sun is giving off at this specific time and location. Hope these tips help. Beneficial Luck!
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