Need help with picture result

[justin_nurman]

Hi, I just bought an EOS30 with a couple of lenses, 50mm f/1.8 and 28-

135IS f/3.5-5.6 after spending a lot of time searching through the

net and asking some questions. I guess I am still in the �asking for

help� mode! :) After shooting some film (Fuji 200 Superia), the

pictures came back either too bright, too yellowish or else. Please

give me some hints on how to correct the problem and be patient with

this rather lengthy message as I am just a beginner. I hope this

picture posting process works! :)

 

I like to shoot indoor, taking the picture of my daughter. I didn�t

use flash as I want to get the picture as it is. For this picture, my

daughter was positioned between the source of light and my camera. I

shot it using 50mm at 20-f/2.0. Any advice to eliminate this

yellowish result? Is the choice of film affecting the result? If the

light was the problem, why didn�t I get this yellowish result for

some of them?

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This picture was taken early morning in a park. I positioned the

camera so that the light was at the back of the tree. I wanted to

capture the details of the bench, so decided to shoot it at 1 stop

over-exposed. Thought the position of the light would help me reduced

this effect. Obviously I was wrong! As you can see, the light can

still penetrate the tree and the horizon at the back was captured as

bright (the scene was dark at that time). I took this picture using

the zoom at 35mm exposed for 10seconds at f/3.5. Should I use a

smaller aperture instead? How to get details of object under the

shade with strong backlighting like this but not over-exposing the

whole scene?

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Thx for all your help and cheers,

Justin

[mark_uhde]

"If the light was the problem, why didn�t I get this yellowish result for some of them?"

 

Corrections in printing. I can't see your pictures, but I'm assuming they're tungsten lights - 3200K. You need 5500K - using an 80A filter (or an 80B with less light loss will work with print film, the difference is only 200K). You'll need faster film due to light loss. Or, better yet, you need tungsten balanced film like Portra 100T.

[justin_nurman]

Trying to upload again, hope it works.

 

 

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[phule]

<a href="http://photonotes.org/articles/beginner-faq/misc.html#colourtint">http://photonotes.org/articles/beginner-faq/misc.html#colourtint</a>

[mark a.]

Actually, Justin, I think your picture of the park is great.

[phule]

Also, photo.net lets you attach an image to a post or response after you hit submit. Unless you have a domain and you're own hosting package that you can control, use the photo.net feature to provide examples.

[jon_stelly]

Yeah, I'm guessing that park shot is taken while there's still a bit of fog? It looks like the sun is just bouncing off of fog. If that's the case it looks like the film got a good exposure, if not, then you might need to look into the filters mentioned above in the future.

[eosbob]

When you shoot pictures indoors under artificial lights without a flash you will often get a color cast. It may be more evident in some pictures rather than others because of the mix of natural daylight compared to tungsten or flourescent artificial light. Tungsten light causes images on daylight balanced film to appear more yellow, while flourescent light tends to add a green color cast. There are several things you can do to address this. Using the filters mentioned above will offer one solution, another possibility is shooting when there is sufficient daylight coming in through the windows to lessen the need for artificial lights. Reflectors are helpful for difusing and redirecting daylight while shooting inside. Another solution would be to shoot black and white film, either the real thing or one of the very nice color film based black and white offerings that can be processed by any C41 photo processor thus saving you the expense of costly custom black and white developing. Kodak TCN400 is a great place to start with color based black and white. I can't say enough good things about the results I get from TCN400 and Fuji Frontier processing. My portfolio has some B&W shots from TCN400.

Lastly adding an off camera flash with a flash braket could be another solution. Good luck.

[justin_nurman]

Thank you all for your comments. Will try to find that filter here. Next time I will upload picture through photo.net so that it's "visible". :-)

 

Cheers, Justin