Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Photography: Light colour.

There are four main consideration when using light in photography :

  • Quality - The clear light of if its muggy or unseeable through the lens.
  • Quantity - The amount of light 
  • direction - The angle in which the light is coming from. 
  • Colour- The colour can change the mood of a photograph 
The white light balance changes the amount of white in the image changing what colour the photograph shows. The colours can give heat and warmth in the image whereas a blue or bright contrast that can appear cold and unnatural giving a different appearance. I took a photo of an everyday object using the different filters such as :
  • Auto - This means the camera  is set automatically with its colour balance.
  • Daylight - This means the camera adds warm orange tones
  • Cloudy- camera add warm but cold tones
  • Shade - camera add warm tones.
  • Tungsten - camera adds warm red tones 
  • Flash- camera adds warm tones 
  • Custom- this can be pre feral choice that you can balance the tones yourself.
All of these can change the mood of the photographs just like it has in these photographs:


For this image I used the florescent H this has made the image have warm sunlight tones so has an orange tinge.

The florescent h has made the light down directly upon it have really orange tones.

This image is manual it tries to add a realistic tone although this image appears more like the colours that we would see while looking at the image so it has not changed the light.
This is the custom setting it has replaced the light with green and blue tones putting a shallow quite dreary effect on the image. It changes the image to being quite spooky an unnatural so the image is spooky.

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