Would you fix this WB?

joshhuntnm

This is as shot. There were some yellow windows in the hall. Easy fix, but would you?

ssimmonsphoto

joshhuntnm wrote:

This is as shot. There were some yellow windows in the hall. Easy fix, but would you?

I would actually leave it. I like that the alter itself isn't as yellow, which helps to draw in the focus. But it's really personal preference. I tend to go warmer, which sometimes means a tiny bit yellower, than go cold. I like it just the way it is!

Ed911

I like it...keep it.

zoomer

Yes, it is pretty yellow. And the wall in back looks pink....of course I am on my crappy work monitor.....

Swartzy

There's no way I'd leave it looking like this. Then again, I'd delete it as I don't see the significance of the event (I do see someone way up there reading but you probably have way better shots that this).

Sorry Josh, I just hate color casts...it looks so amaturish.

joshhuntnm

Swartzy wrote:

There's no way I'd leave it looking like this. Then again, I'd delete it as I don't see the significance of the event (I do see someone way up there reading but you probably have way better shots that this).

Sorry Josh, I just hate color casts...it looks so amaturish.

Swartzy, you take great shots and I have learned a lot from you. I am trying to figure out what to make of this comment "I don't see the significance of this event." I think it is obvious it is a wedding. Which leads me to understand that is a sarcastic statement, but I am too obtuse to get it.

Swartzy

joshhuntnm wrote:

Swartzy, you take great shots and I have learned a lot from you. I am trying to figure out what to make of this comment "I don't see the significance of this event." I think it is obvious it is a wedding. Which leads me to understand that is a sarcastic statement, but I am too obtuse to get it.

Sorry for the misunderstanding here Josh....IT was certainly not meant to be sarcastic. What I was getting at is that it's a scene of the whole but I don't see the B&G very well (as they are seated) and really had to look for them...and there is a reader at the podium. Leaving the shot yellow as it is takes away from any definative (sp?) subject or conveyance of a particular statement. IF....you did some type of alternative processing such as a split wine preset, vignette...something to rid the image of the color cast...then getting the lighter part of the image focusing on the importance of your chosen subject....then it would change everything about the image.

As it is now......the shot looks like you were up in the balcony, aimed your camera at the whole scene and shot....then straight out of camera, posted it. Cropping, alternative processing, darkening edges are simply one suggestion but as the picture stands right now, I personally wouldn't leave it as is.

Hope that clears things up.

Swartzy

For the heck of it Josh, I just did 4 different edits to show how removing the color cast can change the dynamics of a shot. The one on the lower left corner was a simple color balance...notice the white walls up front are actually white, not yellow.

KellyC

joshhuntnm wrote:

This is as shot. There were some yellow windows in the hall. Easy fix, but would you?

What color is the rug?

joshhuntnm

Thanks Swartzy.

Now that we have four choices, which ones do you guys like best?

ShepsMom

I like the orangy one

FedererPhoto

When in doubt about color casts and WB... B&W!!

GoofBckt

I would leave it "as shot" personally. i tend to prefer the warmer tones anyway and I think churches lend themselves to this anyway. I like it.

joshhuntnm wrote:

This is as shot. There were some yellow windows in the hall. Easy fix, but would you?

angevin1

When I have doubt, I always go for what I like!

And my second choice is what it really looked like.

I don't think any of the other processing Swartzy did improved the shot.

Kinkajou

I would say it's a step or two oversaturated with the yellow/orange... I would try to take it down a little bit so that it's not overwhelming, but leave enough of that yellow/orange in there so that it retains the warm feeling of those colors... or, as Federer suggested, make it BW.

Swartzy's lower left version seems to be pretty close to what I think looks right. I understand what he is saying about the image itself, though. The shot would be more meaningful if the B&G were actually up there. Without them up there, it looks more like a test shot to make sure that you've got your settings right. But, since we don't know who the reader is and presumably the B&G do, then it might be more meaningful to them than to us as outside viewers of the image.

joshhuntnm

In a Catholic wedding, here in the Southwest anyway, this is where the bride and groom are most of the wedding. When they are not there, I wanted to be up front where they were. They didn't pay for a second shooter.

Cmau

To further muddy the waters, I prefer the image in the top left, but then I'm quite partial to black and whites. My opinion about fixing the color balance mirrors swartzy's... I like pretty much any of his options better than leaving the color cast.

digger2

Purpose of the pic?
That is really subjective. Many years ago, over 20 in fact, I was asked to take such a picture and the overlay a picture of the brides father looking down on the couple. The whole family had been devoted to him, and obviously believed in the after life so the view was appropriate. Not my taste but they were paying.
I also had a picture of the bride side on to the camera with hands extended, and printed in a shot of her father with his hands out.
That type of shot is/was a staple of wedding photography in England.

cj99si

Way too orange, shouldn't be hard to fix.

Shima

cj99si wrote:

Way too orange, shouldn't be hard to fix.

I wouldn't completely fix it but I'd definitely tone the orange down a bit.