Project #3: White Balance and Color Temperatures
Details:
To be shot in RAW file format and Manual Exposure Mode!
*You may want to use higher Digital ISO settings, as well as a tripod.
For this assignment, you are going to explore color
temperatures using your digital camera as your tool.
As with any assignment, make the
most interesting compositions you can!
Although it’s a technical assignment, you should still concentrate on
making a beautiful photograph while illustrating the color temperature
concepts.
Part A - Color
Temperatures (4 total shots):
I would like you to shoot multiple
subjects illuminated by light sources that each have their own unique color
temperatures. Please set your
camera to the daylight white balance preset
(the sun icon which presets your camera to around 5000K). Then shoot at least 10 images lit by
different types of light sources from fluorescent to tungsten to floodlamp to
neon, etc. Explore multiple light
sources in the same shot to further understand the concepts of white balance.
Keep in mind that you may be
shooting outdoors at night, dusk, dawn, or indoors in order to have a majority
of your scene illuminated by artificial sources. Therefore, I highly recommend shooting with a high ISO (so
sensor is more sensitive to the light) and/or using a tripod (because you may
be shooting with slow shutter speeds!).
Part B - White Balance
Presets (4 total shots):
I would also like you to shoot the
same exact daylight balanced photograph using at least 4 white balance
presets. Find a scene that is
outdoors and lit by natural daylight.
Capture the same exact scene using auto, daylight, fluorescent, and
incandescent white balance settings.
(If you would like to experiment with additional presets that your
camera may have, go for it!).
Optional Part C - Time of Day
(4 total shots):
To further illustrate the concepts
of color temperature, you are going to shoot the same scene at different times
of the day. I want you to pick an
outdoor landscape scene that you can go back to multiple times on the same
exact day. Shoot the same subject
at least 4 times during the day ranging from early morning to late evening (concentrate on the "golden hours"). For example, shoot at 6am, 7am, 7pm,
and 8pm. Make sure you document
what time of day your shots were captured at.
You are welcome to capture the same
exact framing, or shoot a couple different angles of the same scene while you
are there each time. Be sure it is
an interesting image though and be sure to bracket your exposures.
Submit all 8 or 12 shots, labeled
appropriately, to your student folder on the class network
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