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I took this 3 photos using studio lightening with a green card as an background and turning the lights up and down. I wanted to capture the green of the card behind to constract with the leafs but it didn't came oput too good. I also want to get a moody look. Can people comment on what theys think and how I can do it better. Ivan
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It would appear that you used an "auto" white balance setting on the camera. Your camera simply shifted the white balance to what "it" thought was correct based on the programming of the camera's auto white balance processing section. In a studio setting you should design the light and know the white balance color temperature and set that as the white balance on your camera.
As far as "mood" lighting you might try "Rembrandt" lighting to give a strong sense of light and dark.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rembrandt+lighting+setup&btnG=Google+Search&aq=2&oq=rembrandt+lighting
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Hi Zoggy. Actually I set flash on the WB in line with the instroctuions for the studio kit which said to set iot to that before shooting with studio lights. Does this change anythibng? Also I used a white umbrella to light the flower from above at about 5ft from the flowers looking downs at about 15 degress. I tried a 2nd light softwbox below to take the shadows out but it not work. The camera was in front of both lights with the light shoot around the camera. Perhaps it would have been betters with a snoot to selectively light the flower from the side?
What do u think?
What wood be the color temparture of the area lite with nothing but 2x 500w studio lights?
Ivan
Ivan,
What lights are you using?
Do you have a link to a site which carries the lights?
What camera are you using?
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I use http://www.interfitphotographic.com/Lighitng/Lighting%20index.htm Interfit EX150 MKII
And an olympus E3 camera.
Thanks
Ivan
Those appear to be fairly good lights. According to the Interfit documentation the flash-tube is rated at 5600 degrees Kelvin so that should be your WB setting.
On the Olympus E3 you would probably set the WB to the "Flash" setting as it is 5500 K and that's probably close enough.
(This is according to the User Manual loacted at: http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/manual/esystem/man_e3_e.pdf
See page 63.)
I do recommend shooting in RAW and you could include a WB target on the first shot which will make setting the WB extremely easy in most RAW image processors (software). Just select the WB target in the RAW image with the WB sample tool that is included in most RAW software and you should be able to use that WB for the entire session with the same lighting setup.
For most printing and Web display I do recommend sRGB output from the RAW image processor.
If you don't have a RAW image processor, I can recommend, for Windows, RAW Therapee which includes support for Olympus RAW files. You do need to use VNG-4 interpolation, but it should work fine otherwise.
http://www.rawtherapee.com/
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