israa_elmaddah

+1 to that.

 

 

BTW, if you're going to include the white or grey card in the picture to poke with the 'eyedropper' tool, then make sure it's not parked next to something brightly coloured that'll reflect a colour cast onto it. It needs to be in the full beam of your key light.

 

So if I am shooting a burger sandwich for example, should I use the card on the background then add the Item? or do you mean I have to make sure the Item doesn't reflect any colors on the card?

Gray cards are used for two purposes: to set exposure and to set white balance. I assume you are interested in the latter because you referenced color.

 

If the gray and white patches are both spectrally neutral, it won't make any difference which you use to adjust color. Just put the white balance eyedropper in Lightroom on the neutral patch, and it will re-set white balance. Then adjust to taste.

 

If you're shooting raw, which you really should be if you are concerned with editing to get precise color, it will make no real difference how you set the white balance in the camera. That will affect how lightroom first renders the image, but it has no effect on the actual data, and re-setting the white balance with the method I described will produce exactly the same results regardless of the camera WB. for this reason, I haven't bothered with a custom white balance for many years. Instead, I get a white balance in Lightroom from a neutral card (I use a whiBal), and then I sync that color temperature to the other photos taken under the same lighting. Lightroom makes that very easy.

 

You can easily test whether your two patches are both spectrally neutral. Shoot an image with both, then adjust the white balance with each and see whether LR gives you the same color temperature with both.

Great information thanks

Hello everyone,

I bought white balance cards and I found white and black cards with the grey one. When do I use the white and the black one?

 

What is the best way to use the card? Till now I put the grey card in the scene shoot the scene on auto white balance mode, and then I edit the color in Lightroom according to this photo.

 

Am I doing it right?

 

By the way I shoot mostly food and products.

 

Thanks in advance :)

Hello everyone,

 

I am not very good at lightning equipment and we want to buy lights at work. I shoot food. I asked some friends and said that octabox would be great for that purpose with a continuous light equipment. No I want to know what is the best for what for example, if a continuous light with 300W what ocabox size should I get for it? And is a 300W enough? Let us keep in mind that we don't shoot very big projects.

<p>Dear Gareth,<br>

So I can't change is? </p>

<p>Dear Matthew,<br>

Thank you for your answer, but I still don't know how to do it!! can you explain more</p>

 

<p>Hello there,</p>

<p>I am using canon 650D camera. I am not a fan of video recording but sometimes I need it. when I shoot video and try to transfer files, the file size is very big. It splits the video and almost all of them is 3.98 GB. I don't need this size for now. Is there a special settings in my camera that reduces the big size while shooting. <br />Like for example shooting photos in Large and Raw etc.</p>

<p>Thanks for your help</p>

<p>Thanks all fro your response ... Great information</p>

<p>Hello everyone, <br /><br />I am a new flash user. I just bought Godox TT680 and I have a canon 650D camera. <br /><br />I want to use the flash with continuous shoot mode, as I am shooting sports action that has someone running. I tried the flash with many shots, it worked with 2 or 3 shots and then the other shots were not lighted up. <br /><br />What shall I do to get the flash to work with many continuous shots? <br />Is there a special settings with the camera and the flash? <br /><br />Thanks for your help</p>