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A wedding by its nature can last various hours and have various diverse locations. For these reasons will locate your self taking pictures exactly where there are quite a few various light sources that will have an effect on the white balance of your pictures. For example, you could possibly be shooting in a church that has a lot of candles and tungsten lights, but later in the night you may possibly find your flashes competing with the lights on the dance floor. In part 1 of this post, I am going to give you some helpful hints on how to be conscious of your light sources, and tips and hints on shooting images with correct white balance in simple scenarios. In component two, I am going to continue these helpful hints in a lot more complex lighting circumstances.
The very first and most valuable tip I can give is to shoot in RAW. RAW is substantially a great deal more forgiving than JPG. In JPG, your image is stuck with the white balance setting you had on the camera when you shot the photo. With RAW, even if you had your white balance set wrong on your camera whilst shooting, you will later be able to adjust the white balance even though editing your pictures. Furthermore, most of the programs to edit RAW have a white balance tool. This implies though editing your photo in 1 of these programs, you just will need to click on the white balance tool, and then click on a component of the photo that must look white. You are shooting a wedding suitable? Then in almost each picture you will either have a bride in a white dress to click on, or else the white shirts of the men in the wedding. If that does not work, from time to time you can click on the table napkins in the background, or a further trick of mine is to click on the whites of a person's eyes in a photo. But this white balance tool only works if there are not competing sources of light. So on to the next tip.
The second tip I can offer you you is to pay attention to your light sources. It is effortless to recognize when your light source is sunlight, but also recognize when your light source is tungsten or fluorescent. Furthermore, you have to have to make certain there are not competing light sources when possible. This indicates if you are making use of a fill flash, it may possibly need a colored gel to match your primary light source. Do not worry this is a lot less complicated than it sounds. The color temperature of a flash without having any gels is produced to match natural daylight. So if you are working with the flash as fill outside in the course of typical daylight hours (that is, not sunrise or sunset) you don't have to have any colored gels. The exact same goes if you are shooting indoors and your main light is the daylight coming in via the windows. I come across myself in this scenario a lot when I am shooting the bride receiving prepared. It is typically nonetheless early in the day and most of the light is natural daylight. If there are some small lamps on in the room, I may turn them off so that the only light sources are the daylight coming in the window, and my fill flash.
I hope these helpful hints aid you begin to recognize the quite a few different probable light sources you might come across throughout a wedding. In part two of this article, I will clarify how achieve right light balance in a great deal more complicated scenarios.
