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White balance in photography is a crucial tool for ensuring that colors in your images look natural and true to life. Different light sources, like sunlight or artificial lights, can give your photos a color cast that might not match what you see with your eyes. Adjusting the white balance helps correct these color shifts and makes sure your images look more realistic. There are several white balance settings to choose from, each designed for specific lighting conditions:

• Auto White Balance (AWB): The camera automatically adjusts the white balance based on the scene’s lighting, making it an easy choice for most situations.

• Daylight/Sunny: Ideal for bright, sunny days, this setting maintains a natural color balance without any adjustments.

• Cloudy: This setting warms up your photos when shooting on overcast days, balancing out the cooler tones from the cloud cover.

• Shade: Used when shooting in shaded areas, it helps warm up the image to counter the cooler tones of the shadow.

• Tungsten/Incandescent: Great for shooting indoors with incandescent bulbs, it adds blue tones to remove the yellowish hue often caused by these lights.

• Fluorescent: This setting compensates for the greenish cast often seen under fluorescent lighting by introducing a touch of magenta.

• Flash: Optimizes white balance when using a flash, especially in low-light situations, to ensure the colors look natural.

• Custom: Allows you to manually set the white balance by photographing a neutral gray or white object, giving you precise control for tricky lighting situations.

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Serious

Calm

Funny

Nice

Cool

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Honest

Clever

 

One tip I would give is to really take your time and zoom in and see what type of makeup you would like to put on.

Another tip I would give is to bring the opacity low on the brush to make sure you move over the area over and over, so it blends.

Another tip is to use the healing brush tool to remove any pimples, acne, etc.

Another tip is to try and get a portrait of the persons full face, so it is easier to draw on.

The last tip is to use a variety of colors, so the makeup comes out good and funny at the same time.

 

 

The first one catches my eye because it is about one of my favorite fast-food places, Mcdonalds. The second one caught my eye because it is about adidas being the gold and they are using Carmelo Anthony in this ad. The last one caught my eye because it uses Nike and Iron Man showing that he makes the shoe.

The client was my friend Arnold and the company I am representing is That’s A Awful Lot of Cough Syrup. The product is clothing, and it is very popular streetwear. The target audience is people who are really involved in clothing. I would expect to see this advertisement online and on billboards. I am going to use studio lighting to make this advertisement look more professional. The props were the T-shirt, the strobes, and the backround.

HDR photography is a technique that is used to capture amazing details in the highlight and shadows of pictures.

I chose this image because it gives off a nice and crazy looking vibe to the sky and water. The reflection of the bright sundown and clouds reflecting off the water gives a very nice visual to the picture. This picture gives a nice vibe of mother nature and an amazing summer day coming to an end. In my opinion I chose this picture because it is very nice to look at.

Underexposed Exposure

Normal Exposure

1 Stop Underexposed Exposure

1 Stop Overexposed Exposure

2-3 Stops Overexposed Exposure

1. JPEG (.jpg)
JPEG is your go-to for photos online, balancing good quality with small file sizes.

2. HEIF (.heif)
HEIF saves high-quality photos with smaller file sizes, and it’s used by newer phones.

3. TIFF (.tiff)
TIFF is for images that need to stay crystal clear and detailed, often used by photographers.

4. RAW (.raw)
RAW captures every detail from your camera without any editing, giving you full control over the image later.

5. DNG (.dng)
DNG is Adobe’s version of RAW that works across different cameras and is easier to manage long-term.

6. PNG (.png)
PNG is perfect for images that need to stay sharp and can have transparent backgrounds.

7. GIF (.gif)
GIF is great for short, fun animations and looping images, but it’s limited in color.

8. BMP (.bmp)
BMP keeps things simple, storing your image without any compression but making file sizes huge.

9. PSD (.psd)
PSD is the file for Photoshop users, saving all your layers and edits for easy tweaking later.

• Multiple exposure pictures can be made with one or two electronic flash units.
• Multiple exposures are used to study subject motion and position.
• Darken the room and use a black background for the subject.
• Ensure there is enough background space for all exposures.
• Use a ground glass camera or make a pencil sketch to position the subject.
• Set up the flash so it minimizes illumination on the background.
• Turn off all room lights before making the first exposure.
• Move the subject to the next position without advancing the film.
• Repeat the procedure for each exposure you want to capture.
• Electronic flash is ideal for capturing action in photography.
• The flash duration is usually between 1/800th and 1/20000th of a second.
• Flash freezes almost any action, from fleeting expressions to sports triumphs.
• Ghost images may occur if existing light and a slow shutter speed are used with flash.
• Ghost images are caused by blur from existing light and sharp images from the flash.
• Outdoors at night, flash photography can produce underexposed images.
• Flash has limited range outdoors, which can make it difficult to light distant objects.
• Indoors, reflective surfaces help the flash illuminate the subject.
• To compensate for lost light outdoors, you may need to open the aperture by two or three f/stops.
• Test your flash, camera, and film combinations before shooting in large or outdoor spaces.
• A single on-camera flash produces stark lighting and a flat subject appearance at night.
• Off-camera flash, on an extension cord, creates more interesting lighting and reduces flatness.

 

1. zooms, primes, macro lenses, super telephotos, tilt-shift lenses and more
2.  Less expensive lenses will generally have variable apertures – so as you zoom, the maximum aperture gets smaller
3. all major camera and lens manufacturers offer a variety of focal lengths to satisfy most budgets
4. Wide angles give an expansive view, and when used correctly, they can wrap you in the scene. My favorite lenses for landscape work
5.  A major mistake made by new photographers is to use wide angles incorrectly; by not being close enough, having no interest in the foreground, or by trying to include too much in the scene
6. Wide angles are also handy in tight areas, like small rooms, cars, caves, etc. They can create volume and expansiveness in a limited space
7. They are versatile, allowing you to do wide-angle landscape shooting, before zooming in to the telephoto end to take a great portrait
8. standard zooms tend to cover moderate wide-angle focal lengths all the way down to a medium telephoto prime lens offer just one focal length, such as 35mm, 50mm, or 85mm.
9. So, a standard prime fall somewhere in that 35mm to 85mm standard range
10. people feel that zooms offer more bang for the buck these days.
11.  But a prime does force you to think more about composition and point of view, simply because it can’t zoom
12.  Tele photo lens get you close to a subject without actually approaching them.
13. Working with a telephoto lens is like shooting through binoculars because they magnify distant subjects.
14. The most popular telephotos seem to be various flavors of 70-300mm or 70-200mm
15. Telephoto lenses also compress distance, making everything appear closer together, as opposed to wide-angle lenses, which distort perspective and make things look separate.
16. A “fast” lens is usually one that has an aperture of f/4, f/2.8, or larger. If sports is one of your primary subjects
17. To be able to stop action without blur, you need a fast shutter speed. Typically, faster telephoto lenses are required
18. the telephoto lens compresses the scene, making the layers of mountains and mist look almost flat
19. It can be used many lenses for topics like it could be sports, wildlife, birds, landscapes, architecture, portraits, or any number of other subjects.
20. There is no one right answer to this question – it all depends on you, how you like to shoot, and what you like to shoo